Henry Luce S Way

Author : New Word City
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780137084401

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Henry Luce's Way by New Word City Pdf

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. population, and his ideas about journalism and the significance of American values left an indelible imprint on the history of the United States and the world. He was Henry Robinson Luce. Luce was America’s most powerful mass communicator for more than 40 years. Yet, he was an odd, contradictory man with few real friends and talents that were both more and less than they seemed. His private life was largely a failure, and his missionary zeal was never quite realized. New Word City, publishers of digital originals, contributes 10 percent of its profits to literacy causes.

Author : Alan Brinkley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679741541

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The Publisher by Alan Brinkley Pdf

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.

Author : Robert E. Herzstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521835771

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Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia by Robert E. Herzstein Pdf

How Henry R. Luce used his famous magazines to advance his interventionist agenda.

Author : Thomas Griffith
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015034024110

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Harry and Teddy by Thomas Griffith Pdf

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.

Author : James L. Baughman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801867169

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Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media by James L. Baughman Pdf

"A solid account of Luce's life and legacy... A concise, readable volume." -- Journalism Quarterly

Author : Michael Kazin,Joseph A. McCartin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807869710

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Americanism by Michael Kazin,Joseph A. McCartin Pdf

What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning. In response to the pervasive vision of Americanism as a battle cry or a smug assumption, this collection of essays stirs up new questions and debates that challenge us to rethink the model currently being exported, too often by force, to the rest of the world. Crafted by a cast of both rising and renowned intellectuals from three continents, the twelve essays in this volume are divided into two sections. The first group of essays addresses the understanding of Americanism within the United States over the past two centuries, from the early republic to the war in Iraq. The second section provides perspectives from around the world in an effort to make sense of how the national creed and its critics have shaped diplomacy, war, and global culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Approaching a controversial ideology as both scholars and citizens, many of the essayists call for a revival of the ideals of Americanism in a new progressive politics that can bring together an increasingly polarized and fragmented citizenry. Contributors: Mia Bay, Rutgers University Jun Furuya, Hokkaido University, Japan Gary Gerstle, University of Maryland Jonathan M. Hansen, Harvard University Michael Kazin, Georgetown University Rob Kroes, University of Amsterdam Melani McAlister, The George Washington University Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University Alan McPherson, Howard University Louis Menand, Harvard University Mae M. Ngai, University of Chicago Robert Shalhope, University of Oklahoma Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University Alan Wolfe, Boston College

Author : Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674064744

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The Short American Century by Andrew J. Bacevich Pdf

In February 1941, Henry Luce announced the arrival of “The American Century.” But that century—extending from World War II to the recent economic collapse—has now ended, victim of strategic miscalculation, military misadventures, and economic decline. Here some of America’s most distinguished historians place the century in historical perspective.

Author : Joan Hawkins,Alex Wermer-Colan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253041364

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William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century by Joan Hawkins,Alex Wermer-Colan Pdf

William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs’ overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs’s Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up, folding in, and splicing together newspapers, magazines, letters, book reviews, classical literature, audio recordings, photographs, and films, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, excerpts from his dream journals, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife, Joan. William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays, interviews, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars, respected artists, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of starting points—literary studies, media studies, popular culture, gender studies, post-colonialism, history, and geography. Ultimately, the collection situates Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers his insights on political and social problems that have become even more dire in ours.

Author : Robert E. Herzstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521543681

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Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia by Robert E. Herzstein Pdf

This book shows how Henry Robinson Luce used his famous magazines to advance his interventionist agenda in Cold War China, Korea, Japan, and above all, Vietnam. This is the first balanced work on Luce and his influence, using hitherto undiscovered or inaccessible sources. Luce saw the American Century as the heir to the fading British Empire; he failed to see the hubris and cultural blindness that would lead to disaster in Vietnam - a disaster for which his magazines paved the way.

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104249109

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Hearings by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1940 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Administrative procedure
ISBN : UCAL:B3603040

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Patricia Neils
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015018834203

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China Images in the Life and Times of Henry Luce by Patricia Neils Pdf

In the first book devoted exclusively to publisher Henry Luce and China, Patricia Neils provides a major reassessment of the Time Inc. mogul's views and his influence on American public opinion and foreign policy. Previous biographers and historians have depicted Luce as a fanatical anticommunist who used his pre-television media empire-the pages of Time, Life, and Fortune, radio broadcasts on March of Time, and Time Newsreels shown in theatres throughout the United States-to sway American opinion against Mao Tse Tung and Chinese communists in favor of the fascist regime of Chiang Kaishek. 1895-1925: Origins of China Images in the Life of Henry R. Luce; 1926-1936 Heroes and Bandits; 1937-1941: The Red Star and the Good Earth; 1942-1943: Our Honored Ally; 1944: The Stilwell Crisis; 1945-1946: The Vigil of a Nation; 1947-1948: Too Little, Too Late; 'Ghosts on the Roof' and Other Political Fairy Tales; 1950s: Leaning to One Side; Since 1965: The Trans-Pacific Dialogue; Bibliography; Index.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Law
ISBN : MSU:31293011645441

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Lance Morrow
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781641772297

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The Noise of Typewriters by Lance Morrow Pdf

W.H. Auden famously wrote: “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Journalism is a different matter. In a brilliant study that is, in part, a memoir of his 40 years as an essayist and critic at TIME magazine, Lance Morrow returns to the Age of Typewriters and to the 20th century’s extraordinary cast of characters—statesmen and dictators, saints and heroes, liars and monsters, and the reporters, editors, and publishers who interpreted their deeds. He shows how journalism has touched the history of the last 100 years, has shaped it, distorted it, and often proved decisive in its outcomes. Lord Beaverbrook called journalism “the black art.” Morrow considers the case of Walter Duranty, the New York Times’ Moscow correspondent who published a Pulitzer Prize-winning series praising Stalin just at the moment when Stalin imposed mass starvation upon the people of Ukraine and the North Caucasus in order to enforce the collectivization of Soviet agriculture. Millions died. John Hersey’s Hiroshima, on the other hand, has been all but sanctified—called the 20th century’s greatest piece of journalism. Was it? Morrow examines the complex moral politics of Hersey’s reporting, which the New Yorker first published in 1946. The Noise of Typewriters is, among other things, an intensely personal study of an age that has all but vanished. Morrow is the son of two journalists who got their start covering Roosevelt and Truman. When Morrow and Carl Bernstein were young, they worked together as dictation typists at the Washington Star (a newspaper now extinct). Bernstein had dedicated Chasing History, his memoir of those days, to Morrow. It was Morrow’s friend and editor Walter Isaacson—biographer of Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Steve Jobs—who taught Morrow how to use a computer when the machines were first introduced at TIME. Here are striking profiles of Henry Luce, TIME’s founder, and of Dorothy Thompson, Claud Cockburn, Edgar Snow, Joseph and Stewart Alsop, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Otto Friedrich, Michael Herr, and other notable figures in a golden age of print journalism that ended with the coming of television, computers, and social media. The Noise of Typewriters is the vivid portrait of an era.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015074926877

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Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf