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Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media
"A solid account of Luce's life and legacy... A concise, readable volume." -- Journalism Quarterly
Henry R. Luce, 'Time,' and the American Crusade in Asia
Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967) founded ¿Time,¿ ¿Life,¿ and ¿Sports Illustrated.¿ Born in China to missionary parents, Luce was a kind of lay preacher, eager to mold the American mind and advance his ideological program of intervention, capitalism, democracy, and Christian activism. A passionate anti-Communist interventionist, he convinced Americans that the U.S. had perversely ¿lost¿ China to the Communists. A fervent advocate of the Vietnam intervention, Luce, author of the ¿American Century,¿ edited incoming correspondents¿ cables so that the magazines might conform to his ideas. For the first time, we see how Luce accomplished this. ¿A gripping portrait of a great but tragic figure in American history.¿ Illustrations and maps.
Henry Luce's Way
In Time, Life, and Fortune, Henry Luce invented three entirely new forms of journalism. They changed our country, largely for the better, and made Luce a very wealthy man. But his patriotic zeal and his obsessions with China, Communism, and Republican Party politics led him to ignore and distort inconvenient facts to make his case, irreparably tarnishing his legacy. His stunning successes, and his self-inflicted wounds, hold lessons for every leader. He invented the modern news magazine and named it Time, revolutionized the coverage of business with a publication he called Fortune, captured the world in pictures and christened it Life. His publications were read by fully a quarter of the U.S...
Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia
How Henry R. Luce used his famous magazines to advance his interventionist agenda.
Henry R. Luce
The "American Century" was an idea that the founder of Time, Life, and Fortune preached to two generations of Americans, using the persuasive powers of his propaganda empire. Herzstein (history, U. of South Carolina) examines Luce's political ideas and their influence as the century which he named comes to an end and the 100th anniversary of Luce's birth approaches. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Publisher
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 week’s events in a format accessible to increasingly busy members of the middle class. They launched it in 1923, and young L...
Henry and Clare
Biographies of one of America's most famous couples. Includes information on their public and private lives.
Intellectuals Incorporated
Publishing tycoon Henry Luce famously championed many conservative causes, and his views as a capitalist and cold warrior were reflected in his glossy publications. Republican Luce aimed squarely for the Middle American masses, yet his magazines attracted intellectually and politically ambitious minds who were moved by the democratic aspirations of the New Deal and the left. Much of the best work of intellectuals such as James Agee, Archibald MacLeish, Daniel Bell, John Hersey, and Walker Evans owes a great debt to their experiences writing for Luce and his publications. Intellectuals Incorporated tells the story of the serious writers and artists who worked for Henry Luce and his magazines ...
