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EDITORIAL REVIEW:Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founder of \*Time\*, \*Fortune, \*and \*Life \*magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Henry Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether different at Hotchkiss and later at Yale. While working at a Baltimore newspaper, he and Brit Hadden conceived the idea of \*Time\*: a news-magazine that would condense the weeks events in a format accessible to increasingly busy members of the middle class. They launched it in 1923, and young Luce quickly became a publishing titan. In 1936, after \*Time\*s unexpected successand Haddens early deathLuce published the first issue of \*Life,\* to which millions soon subscribed.Brinkley shows how Luce reinvented the magazine industry in just a decade. The appeal of \*Life\* seemingly cut across the lines of race, class, and gender. Luce himself wielded influence hitherto unknown among journalists. By the early 1940s, he had come to see his magazines as vehicles to ad

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Author
Luce, Henry Robinson;Brinkley, Alan
Publisher
Random House, Inc.;Alfred A. Knopf
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307592910
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, History, Biography
Rating
3.73 / 5 (211 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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