I saw this notice on The Exchange, the blog of the Business History Conference.
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (Knopf, 2010), by Alan Brinkley, Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, will be the focus of a roundtable discussion at the upcoming BHC meeting. The book, which is not only a biography, but an examination of Luce’s impact on the magazine publishing industry and on America’s self-image, has received widespread media attention. It has been reviewed extensively, including in the New York Times Sunday Book Review (accompanied by a podcast interview with Brinkley) and by Janet Maslin in “Books of the Times“; in The Economist, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and by NPR’s “Fresh Air.”
Alan Brinkley
Alas, I am not going to be at the BHC this year– I’ve had to pull out for a number of reasons, not least my relocation to a university a bit more distant from St. Louis, Missouri, the venue for this year’s conference. However, I’m really going to miss BHC this year and when I see that Brinkley is going to be there talking about his book, I really wish I could go. Luce published a family of magazines that dominated American culture in the middle of the twentieth century: Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated.
The Past Speaks 