Best Men's Mag You've Never Heard of

In another case of don’t judge a book by its cover—or title—The Gentry Man is one enormously pleasant surprise.

Mr. Rubenstein introduces the reader to an entrepreneur and literato who had a decidedly different take on what it meant to be a man in the generation that came of age in the 1950s. The owner, founder, and gentleman in question here is William C. Segal who started Gentry men’s magazine in 1950 and shut it down in 1957 after a mere 22 issues. Today the magazine would flourish, as the concept of a contemporary man is considerably more evolved and accepting of Gentry’s forward design ethos and choice of relatively arcane topics for its articles..