Walter Lippmann and Amer/Cent
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book.
Work Information
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book.
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
Book Information
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Published
- 1981-09-12
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.34 x 4.45 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780394747316
- ISBN-10
- 0394747313
- Category
- 洋書/Biographies & Memoirs/Leaders & Notable People
The journalist Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was a magisterial figure who relished his role as an insider, an adviser to presidents, a shaper and sometime purveyor of government policy. Drawing on conversations with Lippmann and exclusive access to his private papers, Ronald Steel documents the broad flow of Lippmann's career from his brilliant Harvard days and his role in helping formulate Wilson's Fourteen Points in World War I to his bitter break with Lyndon Johnson over Vietnam. Written with clarity and objectivity, this definitive biography presents a commanding portrait of a complicated man and "guides its reader through the first three-quarters of this American century" (The New Yorker).
Reviews
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A good book about a man whose thinking has not lost its relevance for our time.
Hefty, but well written it takes you on a tour of the life of this interesting man. I think the journey he made through the issues of his century is of great interest. And though he was not an academic but a 'mere' journalist, indeed perhaps because of this, his engagement with the politics and political thought of his century, is more profound and enduring than most academics — including the big icons like Rawls. His preoccupation with the idea that authority was one of the casualties of modern political life, and with the unsustainability of that state of affairs makes his thought more relevant to our day than that of many more recent political theorists.
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has one great chapter
This book finally gets good in its chapter on Lippmann's editorials on the Vietnam war. Anyone researching prominent (or rather, erstwhile prominent) voices of dissent in the 1960s would be well advised to seek it out. Steel seems to have set out to present an objective, detached view of what in retrospect seem to be Lippmann's many unenlightened, regrettable, or otherwise forgettable opinions (e.g., he thought the Truman administration was a travesty until the Eisenhower administration made him long for the great old days of the Truman administration). The portrait that emerges of Lippmann pre-de facto retirement is one of a confused and yet powerful ally of the political status quo.
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Go to Man
Well written, detailed look at Walter Lippman and U.S. in the early to mid-twentieth century. Lippman knew all the major U.S. political figures of his time, and although he made some mis-judgements, he was an accurate and keen observer of political developments.
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an important figure
I had read Chernow's "The House of Morgan" and was amazed how many times Lippman was mentioned in that read. It led me and a group of friends to read this together and we enjoyed it
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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 1922.