God’s Chosen People
Andrew J. Bacevich October 18, 2010 - 11:37am
The Publisher
Henry Luce and His American Century
Alan Brinkley
Alfred A. Knopf, $35, 560 pp.
Old geezers tend to collect things: coins or stamps, memories or tall tales. Much to my wife’s dismay, I collect vintage copies of Life magazine, dozens of which are piled up in the basement of our home. Let me emphasize that I am a discriminating collector, my interest confined to the period between 1936, when the magazine first appeared, and 1952 (an entirely arbitrary cutoff date). I’m also cheap, so if a dealer is asking more than five bucks a copy, I’ll pass. Niggardliness has...
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