lance morrow in your newest book, the noise of typewriters, you describe henry luce as perhaps the most important journalist of the 20th century. why do you say that? well, for three or four reasons. he was a he was a tremendous journalist in his own right. he in the in what was the golden age of magazine reads, which was roughly from the early twenties to the seventies. he was a genius at inventing new forms of magazines. he and his partner, britton hatton, with whom he founded time magazine, invented a whole new the news magazine and a whole new form of sort of magazine in 1930. then just as the depression set in, he invented fortune magazine, which was arguably, i would argue. possibly the best magazine ever printed. and then in 1936, he invented life magazine, which became an immensely success or perhaps the most successful american magazine. so in three different directions. he was tremendously creative and inventive. more than that. robert hutchins, who was the former c
lance morrow in your newest book, the noise of typewriters, you describe henry luce as perhaps the most important journalist of the 20th century. why do you say that? well, for three or four reasons. he was a he was a tremendous journalist in his own right. he in the in what was the golden age of magazine reads, which was roughly from the early twenties to the seventies. he was a genius at inventing new forms of magazines. he and his partner, britton hatton, with whom he founded time magazine, invented a whole new the news magazine and a whole new form of sort of magazine in 1930. then just as the depression set in, he invented fortune magazine, which was arguably, i would argue. possibly the best magazine ever printed. and then in 1936, he invented life magazine, which became an immensely success or perhaps the most successful american magazine. so in three different directions. he was tremendously creative and inventive. more than that. robert hutchins, who was the former c
he was a he was a tremendous journalist in his own right. he in the in what was the golden age of magazine reads, which was roughly from the early twenties to the seventies. he was a genius at inventing new forms of magazines. he and his partner, britton hatton, with whom he founded time magazine, invented a whole new the news magazine and a whole new form of sort of magazine in 1930. then just as the depression set in, he invented fortune magazine, which was arguably, i would argue. possibly the best magazine ever printed. and then in 1936, he invented life magazine, which became an immensely success or perhaps the most successful american magazine. so in three different directions. he was tremendously creative and inventive. more than that. robert hutchins, who was the former chancellor of the university of chicago and a leading american educator, once said that that luce was the most luce s impact on the american mind was greater than that of the entire of american system