http://www.city-journal.org/2010/bc0514sk.htmlIt's the type of book that Frank would read it seems.
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The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley (Knopf, 560 pages, $35.00)
To the list of endangered species, headed by the Giant Panda and the White Rhinoceros, another genus should be added: the American Press Lord. One by one, journalism’s great leaders—Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Adolph Ochs, Col. Robert R. McCormick, Otis Chandler, Katherine Graham, and Henry Luce—have been swallowed up by history.
Even so, a romantic aura surrounds them, decades after their deaths. Some of it can be attributed to the long line of movies about newsgathering, ranging from
Citizen Kane and
The Front Page to
All the President’s Men and
The Insider. But mostly it comes from the realization that blogs and cable news networks are replacing print media or rendering it irrelevant. Whatever the press lords’ flaws (and they had many), their properties showcased the work of memorable writers, editors, and photographers. Quite a contrast to most periodicals now on sale at the supermarket.
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