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The Publisher : Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley (2010, Compact Disc, Unabridged edition)

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As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Henry Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, 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. Historian Alan 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.

Product Identifiers

PublisherTantor Media, Incorporated

ISBN-10140014759x

ISBN-139781400147595

eBay Product ID (ePID)22038865713

Product Key Features

Publication Year2010

TopicEditors, Journalists, Publishers, General, Historical

Book TitlePublisher : Henry LUCE and His American Century

LanguageEnglish

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorAlan Brinkley

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height1.8in.

Item Length6.9in.

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Width6.9in.

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Mr Brinkley has an eye for both the telling detail and the broad sweep of Luce's role as the man who saw the need for a national news magazine and foresaw the American century." ---The Economist

Number of Volumes17 Vols.

Dewey Decimal070.5092 B

Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition

Narrated byRunnette, SEAN