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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 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
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
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...
The Publisher
A profile of the media giant founder of such magazines as Time, Life and Fortune documents his childhood as the son of missionaries, university years and prescient beliefs that transformed the magazine industry. By the National Book Award-winning author of Voices of Protest.
Harry and Teddy
With a cast of characters that includes such Time/Life writers as John Hersey, Vinegar Joe Stillwell, and Whitaker Chambers, this book tells the intriguing, inside story of the Golden Age of journalism, when some of our greatest writers were assembled to do the bidding of Henry Luce. Photos.
Henry and Clare
Cover title: Henry & Clare. Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1991. Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-448) and index.
Luce and His Empire
Henry Robinson Luce - the child of American missionaries in China, a man obsessed by God, became a millionaire at thirty and used his innovative journalistic genius to create a publishing empire.
