Kindle  PDF  An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press 

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The story behind the 1940s Commission on Freedom of the Press8212groundbreaking then, timelier than ever now&quotBates skillfully blends biography and intellectual history to provide a sense of how the clash of ideas and the clash of personalities intersected.&quot8212Scott Stossel, American Scholar&quotA well-constructed, timely study, clearly relevant to current debates.&quot8212Kirkus, starred review In 1943, Time Inc. editor-in-chief Henry R. Luce sponsored the greatest collaboration of intellectuals in the twentieth century. He and University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins summoned the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the Pulitzer-winning poet Archibald MacLeish, and ten other preeminent thinkers to join the Commission on Freedom of the Press. They spent three years wrestling with subjects

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