Title: The Publisher
Author: Alan Brinkley
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780307592910
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 560
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Awards, History, Biography, Social Sciences, Business, United States History, Literary Biography, Historical Biography, News & Media Biography, Media & Communications, Business Biography, Industries, 20th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous, Historical Biography - United States, Journalism, Consumer Industries, 20th Century American History - General & Miscellaneous, Editors, Publishers, Agents, & Booksellers - Literary Biography, Historical Biography - United States - 20th Century, Journalists - News & Media Biography, Publishers & Booksellers - Biography, Publishers - News & Media Biography, Publishing Industries - General & Miscellaneous, Publishers and publishing->United States->Biography, 2011 Pulitzer Prize Finalists, 2011-2020->Biography/Autobiography->Pulitzer Prize Finalists, Kirkus Reviews Best Biographies of 2010, Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2010, New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2010, New Yorker's Favorite Nonfiction of 2010
Categories: Awards, History, Biography, Social Sciences, Business, United States History, Literary Biography, Historical Biography, News & Media Biography, Media & Communications, Business Biography, Industries, 20th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous, Historical Biography - United States, Journalism, Consumer Industries, 20th Century American History - General & Miscellaneous, Editors, Publishers, Agents, & Booksellers - Literary Biography, Historical Biography - United States - 20th Century, Journalists - News & Media Biography, Publishers & Booksellers - Biography, Publishers - News & Media Biography, Publishing Industries - General & Miscellaneous, Publishers and publishing->United States->Biography, 2011 Pulitzer Prize Finalists, 2011-2020->Biography/Autobiography->Pulitzer Prize Finalists, Kirkus Reviews Best Biographies of 2010, Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2010, New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2010, New Yorker's Favorite Nonfiction of 2010
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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