Father Time

"On the other hand, Luce's story does serve as a useful reminder that imagination and daring--a willingness to go against the conventional wisdom--can be as useful for today's journalists as they were three-quarters of a century ago, when Luce began, however inauspiciously, to build his empire. My own impression is that newspaper people today, however valiantly they struggle to adapt to the new order, at heart want to keep doing things the same old way. Almost certainly that's not going to work, so an exploration of the life of a man who went off in his own direction is very much in order."

Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post reviews Alan Brinkley's The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century.