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The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

by Alan Brinkley
RM39.85 MYR RM25.23 MYR 37% off
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Transformative titan of twentieth-century media.

If you're intrigued by the colossal figures who have shaped the media landscape, "The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century" is a title you can't pass up. Alan Brinkley's biography isn't just a tale of a man; it's the story of an era. Luce’s influence on journalism and the global narrative is both a captivating success and a poignant reflection on power's personal toll. You'll walk away with a richer understanding of how media giants are woven into the fabric of history.

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The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

by Alan Brinkley
RM39.85 MYR RM25.23 MYR 37% off
ISBN: 9780679414445
Authors: Alan Brinkley
Publisher: Knopf
Date of Publication: 2010-04-20
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, History, Biographies & Memoirs, Economics
Related Topics: Memoir, Biography, Leadership, American History, Historical, War, Microhistory, Biography Memoir, Communication
Goodreads rating: 3.71
(rated by 310 readers)

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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 Luce quickly became a publishing titan. In 1936, after Time ’s unexpected success—and Hadden’s early death—Luce 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 advocate for America’s involvement in the escalating international crisis, in the process popularizing the phrase “World War II.” In spite of Luce’s great success, happiness eluded him. His second marriage—to the glamorous playwright, politician, and diplomat Clare Boothe—was a shambles. Luce spent his later years in isolation, consumed at times with conspiracy theories and peculiar vendettas.The Publisher tells a great American story of spectacular achievement—yet it never loses sight of the public and private costs at which that achievement came.
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Transformative titan of twentieth-century media.

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