Walter Lippmann : An Intellectual Biography /
The life and ideas of one of the twentieth century's leading political thinkersWalter Lippmann (1889-1974) was among the most influential and wide-ranging political writers in modern America. As both a journalist and political theorist, he shaped ideas about liberalism and democracy, the nature...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: A Mind and Pen
- Political, Not Technocratic
- Liberal and Variable
- Journalism as a Vocation
- Chapter 1: Democracy in the Great Society
- Youth, Education, and Socialism
- Political Life in A Preface to Politics (1913)
- Modern Conditions and Social Psychology
- From Drift and Mastery (1914) to Public Opinion
- Chapter 2: Liberty and the Newspaper Industry
- American Journalism and the New Republic
- Censorship and Propaganda in the First World War
- State and Market in Liberty and the News (1920)
- No Objective Standards Here
- Chapter 3: Stereotypes and Pseudo-environments
- Sources and Targets of Public Opinion (1922)
- A Social Psychology of Opinion Formation
- Politics and Paradox in Modern Democracy
- Experts in the State: How Much Technocracy?
- Chapter 4: Intelligence Testing and the Politics of Expertise
- The Amateur's Control of the Experts
- Democracy as Universal Aristocracy
- The Experts Angered by the Amateurs
- Political Contest in The Phantom Public (1925)
- Chapter 5: A New York World: Urban Liberalism
- City and State Government in the New York World
- Culture Wars and National Politics, 1925-28
- Liberal Modernization in A Preface to Morals (1929)
- Wider Syndication at the New York Herald Tribune
- Chapter 6: The Great Depression and the Politics of Crisis
- Antipolitics and the Failure of Technocracy, 1931-33
- Emergency Powers and Constitutional Dictatorship
- Liberal Constitutionalism vs. Lawless Totalitarianism
- Chapter 7: Constitutional Turmoil in the New Deal State
- Which New Deal? TVA, Not NRA
- Free Collectivism in The Method of Freedom (1934)
- Domestic Origins of The Good Society (1937)
- Against Planning and Court Packing
- Chapter 8: From Neoliberalism to Military Keynesianism
- War and Prices at the Colloque Walter Lippmann (1938)
- After Munich: War Production as Industrial Policy
- For Price Controls and Full Employment
- Chapter 9: The Imperialism of Realism: US Foreign Policy
- Empire as "The American Destiny
- American Power in the Second World War
- US Foreign Policy (1943) and US War Aims (1944)
- Imperial History in The Cold War (1947)
- Chapter 10: American Conservative Liberal
- McCarthyism and The Public Philosophy (1955)
- Great Society Redux: Midcentury Liberalism
- Fragments of Empire in the Vietnam War
- Escalation and Catastrophe, 1965-67)
- Conclusion: Lippmann Agonistes
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index