Five Public Philosophies of Walter Lippmann Wright Paperback John Wiley & Sons

Five Public Philosophies of Walter LippmannAuthor(s): Benjamin F. Wright\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9781477305294, 978-1477305294\nSynopsis\nEssayist, editor, columnist, author of many books, and winner of a special Pulitzer Prize citation in 1958 for his powers of news analysis, Walter Lippmann both appraised and influenced twentieth-century American politics. No other author of the century dealt with the persistent problems of politics from so many approaches, was so widely read, or varied so widely in his conclusions. \n\n Benjamin F. Wrights study is the first book devoted to an exposition and analysis of Lippmanns nine books of political philosophy, as James Reston called them. These books provide a fascinating study of changes in the political and economic ideas of the most important journalist of his time. \n\n Lippmanns books published in 1913 and 1914 reflect the optimism of the Progre.