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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Main Author: Arnold-Forster, Tom (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2025]
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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