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In 1914, a brilliant young political journalist published a book arguing that the US had entered a period of "drift”. He highlighted the tensions between expansion and consolidation, traditionalism and progressivism, and emotion and rationality. Walter Lippman's Drift and Mastery became one of the most important and influential documents of the Progressive Movement. It remains a valuable text for understanding the political thought of early tw...

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Excerpt from A Preface to Politics To 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 cont...

Excerpt from The Coming Test With RussiaThis is an uncensored account of a vital and il luminating exchange. It was written down, the first part of it, on the plane ¿ying the Lippmanns from Moscow to London and the balance in the English capital. It is a sobering blueprint of the designs of our greatest adversary which we will do well to keep in mind in the tense months ahead.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands o...

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 The Stakes of Diplomacy It 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 ...

Excerpt from Liberty and the News In 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of...

Excerpt from Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest Americans 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare a...

A penetrative study of democratic theory and the role of citizens in a democracy, this classic by a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner offers a prescient view of the media's function in shaping public perceptions. It changed the nature of political science as a scholarly discipline and introduced concepts that continue to influence political theory.

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

In an era disgusted with politicians and the various instruments of "direct democracy, " Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public remains as relevant as ever

Excerpt from Public Opinion There 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 ea...

Excerpt from Essays in the Public Philosophy But 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 resol...

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