Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia Author: Robert Edwin Herzstein

ISBN: 9780521543682 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 364 Published: 9 October 2006 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.596 x 1.422 Description: Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967) founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated. Born in China to missionary parents, Luce was a kind of lay preacher, anxious to mold the American mind and advance his ideological program: intervention, capitalism, democracy (when appropriate) and Christian activism.

The most celebrated and influential editor of his day, Luce was also obsessed with the American mission in the world, and with China and East Asia, the place of his birth. Luce tried to 'sell' this mission to a sometimes reluctant public. A passionate anti-Communist interventionist, he also convinced Americans that the U.S. had perversely 'lost' China to the Communists.

A fervent advocate of the Vietnam intervention, Luce, author of the American Century edited incoming cables so that magazines might conform to his ideas.

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