{"product_id":"walter-lippmann-and-the-american-century-9780765804648","title":"Walter Lippmann and the American Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalter Lippmann began his career as a brilliant young man at Harvardstudying under George Santayana  taking tea with William James  a radical outsider arguing socialism with anyone who would listenand 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. Lippmanns 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651774505013,"sku":"ByrdShop_0765804646","price":52.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780765804648.jpg?v=1781840352","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/walter-lippmann-and-the-american-century-9780765804648","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}