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By Jonathan YardleySunday, April 18, 2010
THE PUBLISHER
Henry Luce and His American Century
By Alan Brinkley. Knopf. 531 pp. $35

Henry Robinson Luce seems to be almost forgotten, which to someone who came of age during his heyday is incomprehensible. But the lives and careers of even the most eminent journalists are notable for their evanescence, never more so than now, when journalism as we have known it for generations is itself vanishing into the ether. Still, Luce in his prime was a giant, venerated and despised with a passion accorded to few of his contemporaries, but so influential and important that even those who loathed him had to grant him the respect he had earned.




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