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How TV’s Phil Donahue Became a Feminist Hero
This article originally appeared in the January 30, 1979, issue of Esquire. It contains attitudes and sensibilities about sex, gender, and religion that are potentially triggering. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. Of the …