Henry R. Luce : a political portrait of the man who created the American century / Robert E. Herzstein
- Bib ID:
- 1836035
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Herzstein, Robert Edwin
- Description:
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- New York, NY : C. Scribner's Sons ; Don Mills, Ont. : Maxwell Macmillan Canada, c1994
- xx, 521 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0684193604
- Summary:
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No publisher influenced his era more than Henry Robinson Luce, the creator of Time, Life, and Fortune, as well as the March of Time newsreels. With an audience of more than 40 million people every week, Luce's publications molded Americans' opinions and helped shape the political landscape of the nation - and the world. In this first full-scale historical treatment of Luce's life and times, Robert E. Herzstein illuminates the intermingling of Luce's private and public personae as no other writer has done.
Born in China of missionary parents, Luce lived his life, Herzstein reveals, as a kind of Presbyterian lay evangelist preaching a sermon of Christian, nationalist, global interventionism. Time magazine, founded in 1923, became the cornerstone of the publishing empire that during the next four decades made Henry Luce one of the nation's most important private citizens. The inventor of the slogan "The American Century," Luce believed that his publications were meant to prepare Americans for global benevolence in the name of God and humanity. But Luce's lofty goals were always allied to an innate love for the shadowy world of politics. For the first time, Herzstein documents the historic alliance between Luce, a Republican who called the GOP his "second church," and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as both men tried to aid Britain and to prepare the United States for its entry into World War II.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-502) and index.
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