Alan Brinkley, The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (Vintage, $17 paper). This splendid 2010 biography of the founder of Time, Life, and Fortune, now available in paperback, is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of American magazine journalism. Though Brinkley isn’t the most scintillating of stylists, he’s got all the facts at his fingertips and sets them forth them in a sober yet eminently readable way. I don’t know when I last read another biography that I wished had been longer (TT).
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