Walter Lippmann and the American Century
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (527 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765804646 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 669 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A marvelously researched and readable biography."-- Joseph P. Lash, The New York Times Book Review"An engrossing biography and a splendid primer to six decades of turbulent political life Required reading for everyone interested in this troubled century." -- Time"Rare and admirable exactly, unerringly appropriate to its subjectscrupulous, reflective, balanced, comprehensive, admiring yet never fawning."-- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Star
Lippmann’s experience spanned a period when the American empire was born, matured, and began to wane, a time some have called “the American Century.” No one better captured its possibilities and wrote about them so wisely and so well, no one was more the mind, the voice, and the conscience of that era than Walter Lippmann: journalist, moralist, public philosopher.. For more than sixty years he exerted unprecedented influence on American public opinion through his writing, especially his famous newspaper column “Today and Tomorrow.” Beginning with The New Republic in the halcyon days prior to Woodrow Wilson and the First World War, millions of Americans gradually came to rely on Lippmann to comprehend the vital issues of the day.In this absorbing biography, Ronald Steel meticulously documents the philosophers and politics, the friendships and quarrels, the trials and triumphs
"absolutely first rate biography and history" according to Robert J. Crawford. This is an absolutely wonderful book. Walter Lippman was the first modern journalist of the US: in a time of parochialism, self-congratulatory muckraking, and yellow journalism, he had an internationalist perspective and strove to introduce the American people to new ideas. At the same time, he was deeply interested in the currents of virtually all major political movements in America, and he studied and then participated in them as. John Willis PhD, Leadership Ethics Online said This is the finest scholarship on Lippmann. This is the finest scholarship on Lippmann, who as a founding member of the Council on Foreign Affairs, was a servant to the corporate elites, a man contemptuous of the Average Person who he believed had to be led with propaganda, i.e., a fascist; and, one of the most powerful advisers to the most powerful U.S. leaders in the last century. Read his Public Opinion of 19"This is the finest scholarship on Lippmann" according to John Willis PhD, Leadership Ethics Online. This is the finest scholarship on Lippmann, who as a founding member of the Council on Foreign Affairs, was a servant to the corporate elites, a man contemptuous of the Average Person who he believed had to be led with propaganda, i.e., a fascist; and, one of the most powerful advisers to the most powerful U.S. leaders in the last century. Read his Public Opinion of 1922.. "This is the finest scholarship on Lippmann" according to John Willis PhD, Leadership Ethics Online. This is the finest scholarship on Lippmann, who as a founding member of the Council on Foreign Affairs, was a servant to the corporate elites, a man contemptuous of the Average Person who he believed had to be led with propaganda, i.e., a fascist; and, one of the most powerful advisers to the most powerful U.S. leaders in the last century. Read his Public Opinion of 1922.. .. Dean of American Journalism This book is excellent. The 20th Century has often been described as the "American Century" and this book surveys the major part of that era from the vantage point of the life and work of one of America's leading intellectuals, journalists and pundits. Lippmann began his intellectual career as a young follower and aide to Theodore Roosevelt while a student at Harvard, moving quickly thereafter into the leading milieu around Woodrow