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...Luce and His Empire, Swanberg...
...Luce and His Empire, Swanberg 9-The Joy of Sex, Comfort 10-Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939, Planner
...Luce's life was mainly professional. He spent most of his time working, traveling, bombarding his editors with ideas, engaging in the political affairs of his time. Swanberg's book is less a biography than an ideological assessment, and it soon becomes an all-out political assault on Luce-for his muscular Christianity, his anti-Communist internationalism, and his notion that divine providence helped in the origin of the American experiment and gave America a special mission to help make the world safe for democracy...
Conspiracy. In other circumstances, Swanberg's implication that no other publications influenced people and policies might be a compliment-but is still false. A certain confusion is evident too. Luce leads the U.S. into World War II, the cold war and Viet Nam, ruthlessly shaping public opinion. But when Swanberg needs other ways to discredit him, he has Luce acting from fear of public opinion. TIME'S attacks on Joe McCarthy, Swanberg regards as an example...
Like most countries, the U.S. has a weakness for panaceas, a fondness for recrimination after failure. But history and human nature dash many widely held hopes and apparently reasonable judgments. For a long time, Luce could not admit to himself Chiang's fatal weaknesses. Similarly, men who called Luce a fascist in the 1930s could not face the fact of Stalin's purges. Today liberals regard the American labor movement as warmongering, reactionary and materialist; 40 years ago, they assumed that the rise of strong unions would make egalitarian America awake and sing. The sense of One Worldly...