Henry Luce: American dreamer from The Economist: Full print edition

The man who gave a name to the American century: The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century. By Alan Brinkley. Knopf; 544 pages; $35. Buy from Amazon.com: AT 14, though not later in life, Henry Robinson Luce was a great supporter of a revolution, the Chinese revolution of 1912. He wrote to a friend who was visiting Luce’s missionary parents in China, welcoming him to “a great land, peopled by a great nation, endowed with a great past, overshadowed by a greater future.” It was, he added, “the greatest and most stupendous Reformation in all history.” ...

Read the Economist piece on the book, here (subscription required, or you can do a cache search on Google for the bulk of it). Check this YouTube video out as well (from the Book TV channel).