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Historian Martin J. Sklar passed away in April 2014, shortly after completing his third book. Creating the American Century: The Ideas and Legacies of America's Twentieth-Century Foreign Policy Founders (2017) begins with a reassessment of Henry Luce's widely quoted February 17, 1941, Life magazine essay, “The American Century.” As scores of people on the left always explained it, Luce was representing the views of a reactionary big business community that sought to implement American hegemony in the world, all in an effort to earn giant profits and to control the economies of other nations. For some readers, Luce was a…