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Walter Lippmann is arguably the most influential journalist in American history

Excerpt from A Preface to PoliticsTo prepare a point of view. In selecting for the title A Preface to Politics, I have wished to stamp upon the whole book my own sense that it is a beginning and not a conclusion. I have wished to emphasize that there is nothing in this book which can be drafted into a legislative pro posal and presented to the legislature the day after to-morrow. It was not written with the notion that these pages would contai...

Excerpt from The Campaign Against SweatingCity get less than a wee - Dr. Howard Woolston, Director of Investigation for the New York State Factory Commission.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ...

Excerpt from The Campaign Against SweatingCity get less than a wee - Dr. Howard Woolston, Director of Investigation for the New York State Factory Commission.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ...

Excerpt from The Political Scene: An Essay on the Victory of 1918God, and listen to Woodrow Wilson. It was sincere at the time. Then Europe recovered. It put Off going to the country. It paid a visit to the Old haunts, met the Old cronies, and felt most awfully bored with the everlasting morality Of the Fourteen Commandments. A little Of that goes a long way.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic...

Excerpt from Liberty and the NewsIn writing this tract I have dared to believe that many things were pos sible because of the personal example offered to all who practice journalism by Mr. C. P. Scott, for over forty-five years editor-in-chief of the Manchester Guardian. In the light of his career it cannot seem absurd or remote to think of freedom and truth in relation to the news.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thous...

Excerpt from The Stakes of DiplomacyIt is a queer and very important fact, the per sistence with which hypocrisy coptinues to be the homage vice pays to virtue. [vernments will send armies forth to turn nations into ash heaps and shambles, but they always proclaim they are doing it to enhance civilization, safeguard liberty, and fulfill the wishes Of the all - highest. German officials did commit two bits of frankness before the invasion of Be...

Excerpt from Essays in the Public PhilosophyBut at this time the American people were as unpre pared in their minds as in their military establishment. Could the democracies be rallied, could they be collected and nerved for the ordeal so that they would be equal to this mortal challenge? They had the superior assets. They had the numbers, the resources, the influence. But did they have the insight, the discipline to persevere, and the resolut...

Excerpt from Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current UnrestAmericans can carry through their purposes when they have them. If the standpatter is still powerful amongst us it is because we have not learned to use our power, and di rect it to fruitful ends. The American conservative, it seems to me, fills the vacuum where democratic purpose should be.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cla...

Excerpt from Public OpinionThere is an island in the ocean where in 1914 a few Englishmen, Frenchmen, and Germans lived. No cable reaches that island, and the British mail steamer comes but once in sixty days. In September it had not yet come, and the islanders were still talking about the latest newspaper which told about the approaching trial of Madame Caillaux for the shooting of Gaston Calmette. It was, therefore, with more than usual eage...

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