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The Publicist: Henry Luce, Time Inc., and “The American Century”

Caricature and dinner-table gossip and received opinion never satisfy him for a moment, as this deft, vivid and admirably fair-minded portrait of the cofounder of America s most influential magazine empire makes clear. Brinkley has pinned the authentic Henry Luce to paper gifted as well as grandiose, simultaneously vain and vulnerable, dogmatic and deeply curious, an essentially lonely man who seemed to know everyone but never found the warm companionship he craved.

Geoffrey C. The analysis of the reasons why all three magazines succeeded by catching hold of the American 20th century "zeitgeist" is nothing less than extraordinary. And Brinkley does it all without Whiggish presumptions or larding his narrative with triumphalism or condescension.

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Alan Brinkley, one of our most distinguished historians of 20th Century America, here explores the world, the mind, the magazines, the business empire and the remarkable ambition of Henry Luce, one of a tiny number of media titans who leave a palpable mark on their times. The book is paced like a thriller; it tells a story that is funny and appalling and fascinating by turns, an only-in-America account of an enormous ego at work. This is the way history should be written.

Robert G. The book is a window on the life and times of the man who did so much to shape 20th-century magazine journalism. No one interested in recent U. Kennedy, "". Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Brinkley has a gift for restoring missing dimensions to figures who have been flattened into caricature.

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Bill Keller, The New York Times Book Review Brinkley s wonderfully insightful and judicious biography is more than the story of a life; it s a political history of modernity. Gene Krzyzynski, Buffalo News Alan Brinkley has done history and media buffs a tremendous service with this well-written and balanced biography of Henry Luce. Nicholas Fraser, Harper s Brinkley s thoroughly researched work charts the intersections of the man, magazines and world events that were inextricably bound together, leaving the reader inspired by Luce s hard-won success and the author s sense of detail in brining Luce s story to life.

Lydia Beyoud, The Oregonian The triumph of Brinkley s biography is not in a single thesis but in the disciplined, well-judged way the author presents and knits in telling fragments from the millions of words, letters, interviews, and documents.

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Brinkley tells of a life once well-known but now as dimly remembered as Life magazine. Harry Levins, St. Louis Post Dispatch Brinkley has told Luce s saga with scrupulous fairness, compelling detail and more than a tinge of affection for his vast ambitions and vexing frailties.

It soon became the largest and most influential student movement in the nation and spread as well to Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and the European continent. Stead took note of The Americanisation of the World , by which he meant not only the triumph of the machine but also the extension of mass culture. Indeed, on the night of December 7, , the Rev. Review : How fortunate we are. Nor was Luce all that conservative. Published by Knopf. The publisher henry luce his american century unabridged book review by qbba 1.

Gaines, Columbia Magazine Brinkley appears to have read every issue from the early decades of Time, Fortune, and Life cover to cover, grounding his criticisms of Luce s social and political vision in rigorous detail. Publishers Weekly Starred review This brilliant and absorbing book sets Henry Luce in his true historical context. The Publisher recreates the seemingly now-distant momentat which traditional American media were at the peak of their power. Michael Beschloss, author of Presidential Courage A thoroughly researched, nuanced appreciation of a complex, talented and troubled man.

Kirkus Starred review In this superb biography Alan Brinkley, a Columbia University historian, has told the curiously depressing story of a brilliant man who got everything wrong, including so many of the things that mattered most to him.

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The Economist Alan Brinkley is the modern master of Not-so-fast. The analysis of the reasons why all three magazines succeeded by catching hold of the American 20th century zeitgeist is nothing less than extraordinary. Kennedy, The book does full justice to Luce's outsider insecurity, his blind affinity for men of power and his defects as a family man.

But it is a humanizing portrayal, and it credits the role his magazines, Time and Life especially, played in a country growing uneasily into the dominant geopolitical force in the wo He lives in New York City. Convert currency. Add to Basket. Book Description Knopf, Condition: New. Seller Inventory ZZN. More information about this seller Contact this seller. Seller Inventory M Book Description Knopf. Seller Inventory RF. Never used!. Seller Inventory P Book Description Knopf , Seller Inventory NEW Book Description Condition: New.

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