Alan Brinkley’s comprehensive new biography of Time magazine co-founder Henry R. Luce, The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, has but one flaw. Then again, this “shortcoming” has more to do with my obsessions than it does with any inadequacy on Brinkley’s part. My idiosyncratic complaint: Brinkley doesn’t spend near enough space on the proselytizing enthusiasm the mogul and his wife, Clare Boothe Luce, had for LSD and how that enthusiasm bled into Luce’s Time and Life.
[From How Time and Life magazines helped turn America on to LSD. – By Jack Shafer – Slate Magazine]