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A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine
HarperCollins
September 2006
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Featuring: Briton Hadden
322 pages
ISBN: 0060505494
EAN: 9780060505493
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Here is the tale of The Man Time Forgot: the story of
Briton Hadden, the genius behind Time magazine, and
his betrayal by Henry R. Luce. The true story of their
tortured friendship has never before been told.
Friends, collaborators, and childhood rivals, Hadden and
Luce are not yet twenty-five when they start the nation's
first newsmagazine at the outset of the Roaring Twenties.
Millionaires at thirty, together they lay the foundation for
a media empire. But their partnership is explosive and their
rivalry ferocious, inspired by envy as well as love. When
Hadden dies at the age of thirty-one, Luce begins to bury
the legacy of the giant he was never able to best.
In this groundbreaking biography, Isaiah Wilner offers the
first full account of the birth of Time. He paints a
fascinating portrait of a man whose mind dreams of
everything, from the weekly newsmagazine to Life, Sports
Illustrated, and the radio quiz show, and he presents a
major reappraisal of the most significant media figure of
the twentieth century.
The story travels from the tomb of Yale's storied secret
society, Skull and Bones, to high-society Europe and South
America, following the friendship of two brilliant and
opposite souls who inspire one another to the pinnacle of
earthly success. The young men emerge from the crucible of
the Great War with an idea—Hadden's idea—that shapes the way
Americans will think about the world. By making the news
accessible, and amusing readers as it informs them, Hadden's
Time sets the course for modern journalism into the
twenty-first century.
Isaiah Wilner brings to life this remarkable story in The
Man Time Forgot, a book as stylish, passionate, and
provocative as Briton Hadden himself.
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