Walter Lippmann began his career as a brilliant young man at Harvard?studying under George Santayana, taking tea with William James, a radical outsider arguing socialism with anyone who would listen?and he ended it in his eighties, writing passionately about the agony of rioting in the streets, war in Asia, and the collapse of a presidency. In between he lived through two world wars, and a depression that shook the foundations of American capitalism. Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) has been hailed as the greatest journalist of his age. 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 of this man who for six decades stood at the center of American political life. 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.

In what is widely considered the most influential book ever written by Walter Lippmann, the late journalist and social critic provides a fundamental treatise on the nature of human information and communication. The work is divided into eight parts, covering such varied issues as stereotypes, image making, and organized intelligence. The study begins with an analysis of "the world outside and the pictures in our heads", a leitmotif that starts with issues of censorship and privacy, speed, words, and clarity, and ends with a careful survey of the modern newspaper. Lippmann's conclusions are as meaningful in a world of television and computers as in the earlier period when newspapers were dominant. Public Opinion is of enduring significance for communications scholars, historians, sociologists, and political scientists. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Written in the aftermath of World War I, this essay by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist remains relevant in its denunciation of media bias, particularly in terms of wartime propaganda.

The most incisive comment on politics to day is indifference. When men and women begin to feel that elections and legislatures do not matter very much, that politics is a rather distant and unimportant exercise, the reformer might as well put to himself a few searching doubts. Indifference is a criticism that cuts beneath oppositions and wranglings by calling the political method itself into question. Leaders in public affairs recognize this. They know that no attack is so disastrous as silence, that no invective is so blasting as the wise and indulgent smile of the people who do not care. I have put forward a preliminary sketch for a theory of politics, a preface to thinking. Like all speculation about human affairs, it is the result of a grapple with problems as they appear in the experience of one man. For though a personal vision may at times assume an eloquent and universal language, it is well never to forget that all philosophies are the language of particular men.

“It has been demonstrated beyond doubt, by the experience of this writer and his associates, that a United States government committed to the establishment of its own National Bank and an International Development Bank will gain virtually immediate agreement for practice with, at the very least, nearly every nation of the world, excepting a few stubborn cases of remaining governments, which can be merely tolerated . . . .” --Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. writing in The Case of Walter Lippmann: A Presidential Strategy, 1977 More that 40 years later, the truth of this statement is obvious to all who take the time to investigate. The irony is that it is the government of China which has proven this to be true. Loans from national and international Development Banks begun by China have brought most of the world into cooperative development partnerships with China. It pays to listen to the wisdom of Lyndon LaRouche! In 2016, after decades destroying the once most prosperous and industrially progressive society in history, the Tories finally lost complete control of the American Presidency. In 2018, as we release this new edition of LaRouche’s most important book of 1977, there is a fierce struggle ongoing inside America to determine whether the Presidency of the United States will finally and permanently be put under complete control of forces loyal to the General Welfare of the People and Posterity of America; or whether the until recently dominant Tory interests which have abused the powers of the American Presidency to spread imperial wars, poverty, and hopelessness, will be allowed to continue the destruction of the nation and the world. Will we be able to truly make America great again and take a leading role in cooperation with especially Russia, China and India for world development along the lines long promoted by Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche? Or, will the British Empire/Wall Street interests finally accomplish the complete destruction of America (and possibly the world in general) via predatory finance and further geopolitical games played with thermonuclear fire? This book is a history of this struggle, as well as a guide to be used by Patriotic forces in finally defeating the Tory faction in order to put America back into a leading role in the development of science, technology and the further uplifting of mankind in general—and the suffering American people in particular.

This book is an introduction to and translation of the 1938 Walter Lippmann Colloquium held in Paris, which became known as the intellectual birthplace of “neo-liberalism.” Although the Lippmann Colloquium has been the subject of significant recent interest, this book makes this crucial primary source available to a wide, English-speaking audience for the first time. The Colloquium features important—often passionate—debates involving well-known intellectual figures such as Walter Lippmann, Louis Rougier, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Michael Polanyi, Jacques Rueff, Alexander Rüstow and Wilhelm Röpke. Many of the topics addressed at the Colloquium, such as the proper methods of economic intervention, the relationship between the market economy and democracy, and the relationship between economic liberalism and political liberalism are issues that still vie for our attention in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

After an eloquent and moving analysis of what he sees as the disillusion of themodern age, Lippmann posits as the central dilemma of liberalism its inability to find an appropriate substitute for the older forms of authority-- church, state, class, family, law, custom--that it has denied. Lippmann attempts to find a way out of this chaos through the acceptance of a higher humanism and a way of life inspired by the ideal of "disinterestedness" in all things. In his new introduction to the Transaction edition, John Patrick Diggins marks "A Preface "to "Morals, "originally published in 1929, as a critical turning point in Lippmann's intellectual career. He also provides an excellent discussion of the enduring value of this major twentieth-century work by situating it within the context of other intellectual movements.