Walter Lippmann and the American Century
By Ronald Steel
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Ronald Steel's Walter Lippmann and the American Century (1980) is a full life of the columnist who shaped American political argument for decades. Steel follows Lippmann from Harvard and cofounding a progressive magazine through his work on Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and years of commentary, using one career to map American politics and ideas from the Progressive Era through Vietnam.
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- Fareed Zakaria: “There’s a wonderful biography of him by a guy named Ronald Steele called Walter Lippmann and the American Century. It’s a great intellectual history of America from the 20s to the 60s or 70s told through the life of this one guy.”