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Briton Hadden Papers, Time Inc. Archives

David Halberstam Papers, Mugar Library, Boston University

Stanley Hornbeck Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University

Hotchkiss School Archives, Hotchkiss School Library

Ralph Ingersoll Papers, Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University

Institute for Pacific Relations Papers, Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Roy Larsen Papers, Time Inc. Archives

Daniel Longwell Oral History, Columbia Oral History Project, Columbia University

Daniel Longwell Papers, Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Clare Boothe Luce Papers, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress

Henry R. Luce Papers, Time Inc. Archives

Henry R. Luce Papers, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress

Henry W. Luce Papers, Hartford Seminary Foundation

Dwight Macdonald Papers, Sterling Library, Yale University

Nettie McCormick Papers, Wisconsin State Historical Society

Franklin D. Roosevelt Papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

Henry Stimson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

W. A. Swanberg Papers, Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Time
Dispatches, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Time Inc. Papers, Time Inc. Archives

Rexford Tugwell Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Lila Luce Tyng Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Henry A. Wallace Papers, University of Iowa Library

Albert C. Wedemeyer Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University

Theodore H. White Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Wendell Willkie Papers, Lilly Library, Indiana University

INTERVIEWS

Jeanne Campbell, New York, N.Y., 1997
Richard Clurman, New York, N.Y., 1993
Thomas Griffith, New York, N.Y., 1995
Henry Grunwald, New York, N.Y., 1997
David Halberstam, New York, N.Y., 2004
Andrew Heiskell, New York, N.Y., 1996
Christopher Luce, New York, N.Y., 1993
Henry Luce III, New York, N.Y., 1993–98
Peter Luce, Denver, Colo., 1997
Elisabeth Luce Moore, New York, N.Y., 1994
David H. C. Read, New York, N.Y., 1995
Leslie Severinghaus, Coconut Grove, Fla., 1992
Lila Luce Tyng, Gladstone, N.J., 1993

PREFACE

1.
Henry Luce interviewed by Eric Goldman, May 8, 1966, video,
The Open Mind
, WNBC Television, “A Profile of Henry R. Luce,” TIA.

2.
Henry R. Luce, “The American Century,”
Life
, February 17, 1941.

3.
W. A. Swanberg,
Luce and His Empire
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1972).

I AMERICANS ABROAD

1.
Charles E. Ronan and Bonnie B. C. Oh, eds.,
East Meets West: The Jesuits in China, 1582–1773
(Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1988); George H. Dunne,
Generation of Giants: The Story of the Jesuits in China in the Last Decades of the Ming Dynasty
(Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1962); John King Fairbank,
The United States and China
, 4th ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), pp. 152–55; William R. Hutchison,
Errand to the World: Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), pp. 21–22.

2.
James C. Thompson, Jr., Peter W. Stanley, John Curtis Perry,
Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia
(New York: Harper & Row, 1981), pp. 44–60; John King Fairbank, “The Many Faces of Protestant Missions,” in Fairbank, ed.,
The Missionary Enterprise in China and America
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 1–10; Jonathan Spence,
To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620–1960
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1969), pp. 34–56; Michael H. Hunt,
The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1983), pp. 26–28.

3.
George Marsden,
Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 30–31, 48, 86–88, 162–69; Jon H. Roberts,
Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1859–1900
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988), pp. 213–31; Randall Balmer and Lauren Winner,
Protestantism in America
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), pp. 73–75, 85.

4.
William R. Hutchinson, “Modernism and Missions: The Liberal Search for an Exportable Christianity, 1886–1920,” in Fairbank,
The Missionary Enterprise in China and America
, pp. 110–31; Martin E. Marty, “Protestants and the Chinese Wall,”
Reviews in American History
14 (September 1986): 391; Roberts,
Darwinism and the Divine in America
, pp. 181–208; Balmer and Winner,
Protestantism in America
, pp. 57–58, 84–85.

5.
Clifton J. Philips, “The Student Volunteer Movement and Its Role in China Missions, 1886–1920,” in Fairbank,
The Missionary Enterprise in China and America
, pp. 91–109; Valentin H. Rabe,
The Home Base of American China Missions, 1880–1920
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), pp. 90–93; Hutchison,
Errand to the World
, pp. 130–32.

6.
Arthur T. Pierson,
The Crisis of Missions
(New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1886), p. 27; Philips, “The Student Volunteer Movement,” pp. 92–96.

7.
Philips, “The Student Volunteer Movement,” pp. 102–3.

8.
Spence,
To Change China
, pp. 34–36; Akira Iriye,
Across the Pacific: An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations
(New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967), pp. 17–20; Rabe,
The Home Base of American China Missions
, pp. 92–106.

9.
B. A. Garside,
One Increasing Purpose: The Life of Henry Winters Luce
(New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1948), pp. 23–28.

10.
Ibid., pp. 29–34.

11.
Ibid., pp. 30–34; Robert E. Speer,
A Memorial to Horace Tracy Pitkin
(New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1903), pp. 62–80; W. A. Swanberg,
Luce and His Empire
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1972), pp. 15–17.

12.
Garside,
One Increasing Purpose
, pp. 44–58, 82–83; HWL to Howard Thurman, February 12, 1936, HWL Mss.

13.
ERL to HRL, February, n.d., 1942, May 26, 1946, TIA; Garside,
One Increasing Purpose
, pp. 58–72; Swanberg,
Luce and His Empire
, p. 17.

14.
William R. Hutchison, “Modernism and Missions,” pp. 111–20; Jessie Gregory Lutz,
China and the Christian Colleges, 1850–1950
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1971), pp. 12–24.

15.
Garside,
One Increasing Purpose
, pp. 78–87; Gladys Zehnpfennig,
Henry R. Luce: Tycoon of Journalism
(Minneapolis: T. S. Denison & Co., Inc., 1969), p. 14; Lutz,
China and the Christian Colleges
, pp. 28–29; Jane Hunter,
The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), pp. 164–66.

16.
S. Cecil-Smith to HWL, July 20, 1913, LT; Garside,
One Increasing Purpose
, pp. 88–94.

17.
Arthur H. Smith,
Chinese Characteristics
(New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1894), pp. 313, 329–30; Charles W. Hayford, “Chinese and American Characteristics: Arthur H. Smith and His China Book,” in Suzanne Wilson Barnett and John King Fairbank, eds.,
Christianity in China: Early Protestant Missionary Writings
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985), pp. 153–74; Lawrence D. Kessler,
The Jiangyin Mission Station: An American Missionary Community in China, 1895–1951
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), pp. 43–66; Sidney A. Forsythe,
An American Missionary Community in China, 1895–1905
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), pp. 21–30; Marty, “Protestants and the Chinese Wall,” pp. 388–89; Hunt,
The Making of a Special Relationship
, pp. 28–29.

18.
Diana Preston,
The Boxer Rebellion
(New York: Walker & Company, 2000), p. 276; Henry Keown-Boyd,
The Fists of Righteous Harmony: A History of the Boxer Uprising in China in the Year 1900
(London: Leo Cooper, 1991), pp. 27–29, 214–15; Jonathan Spence,
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895–1980
(New York: Viking Penguin, 1981), pp. 58–62.

19.
Frederic A. Sharf and Peter Harrington,
China 1900: The Eyewitnesses Speak
(London: Greenhill Books, 2000), pp. 26–28, 151–239; Preston,
The Boxer Rebellion
, pp. 275–82.

20.
Stuart Creighton Miller, “Ends and Means: Missionary Justification of Force in Nineteenth-Century China,” in Fairbank,
The Missionary Enterprise in China and America
, pp. 273–80.

21.
Lutz,
China and the Christian Colleges
, pp. 108–9, 121; John J. Heeren,
On the Shantung Front: A History of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1861–1940
(New York: Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, 1940), pp. 124, 137–39; B. A. Garside,
Within the Four Seas
(New York: Frederic C. Bell, 1985), pp. 58–59; Garside,
One Increasing Purpose
, p. 98.

22.
Family birth record, TIA.

23.
ERL notes, n.d., 1898, TIA.

24.
HRL to HWL, June 12, 14, 1903, TIA.

25.
Elisabeth Luce Moore interview.

26.
Hunter,
The Gospel of Gentility
, pp. 128–73; Elisabeth Luce Moore interview.

27.
Elisabeth Luce Moore interview; Elisabeth Luce Moore oral history, TIA.

28.
HRL to parents, December 24, 1916, TIA; Elisabeth Luce Moore interview.

29.
HRL to ERL, July 7, 1912, TIA; Elisabeth Luce Moore oral history, TIA; Elisabeth Luce Moore interview.

30.
Elisabeth Luce Moore interview; Elisabeth Luce Moore oral history, TIA.

31.
HRL to parents, n.d., TIA.

32.
HRL to Mary Linen, n.d., 1903, TIA; Garside,
Within the Four Seas
, p. 58.

33.
HRL Elson interview, 1965, TIA; ERL to HRL, August 6, 1918, LT.

34.
HRL Elson interview, 1965, TIA; Elisabeth Luce Moore interview.

35.
HRL Elson interview, 1965, TIA; HWL to HRL, n.d., 1913, TIA; Rabe,
The Home Base of American Missions
, pp. 109–71.

36.
St. Nicholas
, n.d., 1909, TIA.

37.
E. Murray to HRL, October 1, 1913, LT; HRL speech, Nov. 17, 1932, LT; Richard H. Goldstone,
Thornton Wilder: An Intimate Portrait
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1975), pp. 12–13.

38.
HRL to ERL, September 3, 1911, HRL to parents, September 19, 20, 1908, TIA.

39.
HRL to parents, October 13, 1909, February 20, 1910, September, n.d., 1908, May 22, September 4, 1910, TIA.

40.
HRL to parents, May 16, 1909, September 17, 1911, February 11, July 21, 1912, TIA.

41.
HRL to parents, April 3, July 25, 1909, May 8, 1910, n.d., 12, 1911, TIA.

42.
HRL Elson interview, 1965, TIA; HRL speech, November 17, 1932, LT.

43.
HRL to parents, October 29, 1911, March 10, 1912, HRL to Emmavail and Elisabeth, February 11, 1912, TIA; Spence,
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
, pp. 94–153.

44.
HRL to Miss Dolph, March 4, 1912, HRL to Mrs. Linen, January, n.d., 1912; HRL speech at Saint Thomas Church, New York City, December 13, 1942, TIA.

45.
HRL to parents, July 14, 21, 1912, TIA.

46.
Elisabeth Luce Moore interview.

47.
Ella Shields to ERL, November 7, 1912, Sheldon Luce to Henry Kobler, October 11, 1963, TIA.

48.
HRL to ERL, October 31, November 13, multiple n.d., 1912, TIA.

49.
HWL to HRL, February 3, n.d., 1912, LT.

50.
Elisabeth Luce Moore interview.

51.
HRL to ERL, November 6, 1912, HRL to parents, November 8, 1912, TIA.

II THE STRIVER

1.
HRL to parents, November 13, 14, 22, 1912, TIA.

2.
HRL to parents, November 22, n.d., December 1, 7, 9, 12, 1912, HRL to Emmavail, December 10, 1912, TIA.

3.
HWL to HRL, n.d., 1913, LT; HRL Elson interview, 1965, p. 43, TIA.

4.
HRL to parents, December 11, 16, 24, 1912, January 12, 19, 1913, TIA; “Idolatry,” a poem by HRL, n.d., 1913, LT.

5.
ERL to HRL, January 8, 1913, HWL to HRL, January 10, 13, 1913, LT; HRL to parents, January 26, 1913, HRL to ERL, February 9, 1913, TIA.

6.
HRL to HWL, March 14, 1913, LT; HRL to HWL, March 18, 23, 1913, April, n.d., 1913, HRL to ERL, April 7, 1913, TIA; HRL travel diary, n.d., 1913, LT.

7.
HRL to ERL, April 14, 1913, TIA; HWL to HRL, May 2, 1913, LT.

8.
HRL to ERL, April 14, 1913, TIA; railroad tickets and tour receipts, n.d., 1913, LT; HRL to HWL, April 25, 1913, TIA.

9.
Miss Dolph to HWL, August 6, 1913, LT; HRL to parents, August 24, 30, 1913, TIA; Harold Burt to ERL, August 31, 1913, Harold Burt to HRL, September 4, 1913, LT.

10.
HWL to HRL, n.d., 1913, ERL to HRL, January 12, 1914, LT.

11.
HRL Elson interview, 1965, p. 46, TIA; HWL to HRL, December 11, 1913, ERL to HRL, December 7, 1912, LT.

12.
HRL to ERL, n.d., 1913, TIA.

13.
E. Digby Baltzell,
The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America
(New York: Random House, 1965), pp. 109–42.

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