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Henry R. Luce (1898–1967)

Auteur van Life's Picture History of Western Man

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Henry R. Luce was a student at Yale University when he and Briton ("Brit") Hadden, both editors of the Yale Daily News, conceived of the idea of a magazine of news rewritten from the daily newspapers. Not long after, on March 3, 1923, they published the first issue of Time magazine. Luce was then toon meer only 23. The facts of the news came from the daily newspapers. Time writers appropriated them without permission, summarized them, embellished them with novelistic flourishes, and produced a lively weekly digest of the news. The magazine turned its first profit in three years. By 1935, Time was making $2.2 million a year, Luce was rich, and his magazine was fashionable and influential. (Hadden had died at 31 from flu complications.) Luce broke the twentieth-century journalistic canon that news should be presented objectively by unashamedly slanting it to conform to his conservative opinions. This practice was the subject of controversy throughout his life. The writer Merle Miller, who worked for Time for many years, once described the magazine this way in a public lecture: "It's edited brilliantly, is well written, but is dishonestly written. It is extremely unified in that every single story carries the slant of its editor, Henry Luce." Luce had strong views and believed that "impartiality is often an impediment to truth." Born in China to American Protestant missionaries, he saw America's mission as a crusade to save the world, particularly from communism, and consciously used his magazine to advance this view with the American public and officials. Keeping dictatorial Chiang Kai-shek in power in China and the communists out was one of his most fervent crusades. The Vietnam War was another. Luce enjoyed his journal's influence: "Time is the most powerful publication in America," he wrote in a policy memo to his executives. Time writers who saw things differently either learned to accept revision of their work or left. It was hard to leave, however, because pay and perks were the best in the business. Luce was a world traveler who mixed with heads of state, politicians, and diplomats, often passing on the substance of his conversations with them to his editors. His second wife, the editor and playwright Clare Boothe Luce, rose to prominence in national politics, serving as a congresswoman from Connecticut (1943--47) and as U.S. ambassador to Italy (1953--57). Luce's superb editorial instincts made him the giant of magazine journalism in the twentieth century. He brought out three other highly successful magazines: the business magazine Fortune in 1930, the picture magazine Life in 1936, and the flashy Sports Illustrated in to Newsweek, Life 1954. Where he created, others copied: Time gave rise to Look, and Sports Illustrated to a number of imitators. The company he founded grew into one of the nation's leading media corporations. When Luce died, Newsweek put him on its cover and said:"There has been no one like him in the history of modern journalism." (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Henry & Clare Boothe Luce
Photo by Phil Stanziola, New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

Werken van Henry R. Luce

Time Capsule/1941 (1967) 58 exemplaren
Time Capsule/1939 (1968) 37 exemplaren
Time Capsule/1940 (1968) 31 exemplaren
Time Capsule/1943 (1943) 31 exemplaren
Time Capsule/1944 (1944) 30 exemplaren
Time Capsule/1927 (1968) — Redacteur — 24 exemplaren
Time Capsule/1932 (1968) 22 exemplaren
Fortune (1946) 7 exemplaren
The Form Givers at Mid-Century (2013) 5 exemplaren
Time — Redacteur — 5 exemplaren
Life (1989) 4 exemplaren
Life Magazine - November 1978 (1978) 4 exemplaren
Life Magazine - Fall 1987 (1987) 3 exemplaren
Life Magazine - April 1979 (1979) 2 exemplaren
LIFE MAGAZINE March 15, 1943 (1943) 2 exemplaren
The American century 2 exemplaren
Life Magazine 1943.12.27 December 27, 1943 (1943) — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
Life Magazine - February 1979 (1979) 2 exemplaren
Life Magazine - January 1983 (1983) 2 exemplaren
Life Magazine APRIL 5, 1948 (1948) 1 exemplaar
Life at war 1 exemplaar
Time Capsule/1945 (1968) 1 exemplaar
LIFE Magazine - May 2, 1949 (1949) 1 exemplaar
LIFE MAGAZINE APRIL 11, 1938 (1938) 1 exemplaar
Fortune Magazine 1946 May (1946) 1 exemplaar
LIFE Magazine - March 15, 1937 (1937) 1 exemplaar
Life Magazine October 2, 1964 (1964) 1 exemplaar
Time Capsule/1949 1 exemplaar
Life Magazine - February 1980 (1980) 1 exemplaar
The Best of Life 1 exemplaar
Fortune Magazine 1945 October (1945) 1 exemplaar
Fortune Magazine 1930 February (1930) 1 exemplaar
Platen kookboek 1 exemplaar
Life Magazine - July 1985 (1985) 1 exemplaar
The Camera 1 exemplaar
Fortune Magazine 1947 January (1947) 1 exemplaar
Life Magazine - May 1993 (1993) 1 exemplaar
Fortune Magazine 1946 February (1946) 1 exemplaar
Time 50 1 exemplaar
Fortune Magazine 1934 November (1934) 1 exemplaar

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Fortune No. 3, March 1933, With The United Fruit Company and The Conquest Of Honduras, The Social Register, Allen DeVilbiss And The Airgun, U.S. Imports, Hartford Family And The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, The High Cost Of Diarmament And The U.S. S. Indianapolis, The Collapse Of The Bank Of The United States And Joseph S. Marcus, Atlas: Cigar Box Art (Color Relief Plates), International Shoe, Royal Dutch Shell Directors (Photo Essay), Charleston South Carolina
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Leden
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#33,729
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4.0
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