Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia

This book shows how Henry Robinson Luce used his famous magazines to advance his interventionist agenda in Cold War China, Korea, Japan, and above all, Vietnam. This is the first balanced work on Luce and his influence, using hitherto undiscovered or inaccessible sources. Luce saw the American Century as the heir to the fading British Empire; he failed to see the hubris and cultural blindness that would lead to disaster in Vietnam - a disaster for which his magazines paved the way.

Author: Robert E. Herzstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/18/2005
Pages: 364
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.44w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780521835770

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 08/01/2005 pg. 22
Library Journal 08/29/2005

About the Author
Herzstein, Robert E.: - Robert E. Herzstein is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina where he teaches. He is the author of numerous books including Henry R. Luce: A Political Portrait of the Man Who Created the American Century, Waldheim: The Missing Years, Roosevelt and Hitler: Prelude to War, Adolf Hitler and the German Trauma, and The Nazis (Time-Life Books). Professor Herzstein is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and the recipient of various awards and grants.