Fools Rush in
Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner
Excerpt
Chapter One
By all accounts, Henry Robinson Luce was endowed with moral certainty at birth. Born in 1898 to American missionaries in
Tengchow, China, Harry, as he was known, was a precocious and
serious-minded child. At the age of five, as a diversion, he delivered
religious sermons to his playmates. Later, turning to journalism,
which he referred to as a "calling," he wrote: "I believe that I can be of
greatest service in journalistic work and can by that way come nearest
to the heart of the world." His father had devoted his life to proselytizing;
likewise, Harry Luce would set people on the highway to
truth. Making money was not his goal, as the terms of Luce's will
would later make clear: "Time Incorporated is now, and is expected to
continue to be, principally a journalistic enterprise and, as such, an enterprise
operated in the public interest as well as in the interest of its
stockholders."
When he was fifteen Luce arrived in America to attend
Hotchkiss School. From there he went on to Y ... read full excerpt from: Fools Rush In ebook
