Man Time Forgot

<p>Friends collaborators and childhood rivals Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce were not yet twenty-five when they started <em>Time</em> the first newsmagazine at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. By age thirty they were both millionaires having laid the foundation for a media empire. But their partnership was explosive and their competition ferocious fueled by envy as well as love. When Hadden died at the age of thirty-one Luce began to meticulously bury the legacy of the giant he was never able to best.</p><p>In this groundbreaking stylish and passionate biography Isaiah Wilner paints a fascinating portrait of Briton Hadden--genius and visionary--and presents the first full account of the birth of <em>Time</em> while offering a provocative reappraisal of Henry R. Luce arguably the most significant media figure of the twentieth century.</p><p>Isaiah Wilner is a writer for New York magazine. He attended Yale University and was editor in chief of the Yale Daily News. He lives in Brooklyn New York.</p>