Walter Lippmann : An Intellectual Biography.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnold-Forster, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974.

Lippmann, Walter.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The life and ideas of one of the twentieth century's leading political thinkersWalter Lippmann (1889-1974) was among the most influential and wide-ranging political writers in modern America. As both a journalist and political theorist, he shaped ideas about liberalism and democracy, the nature of public opinion, US power and empire, and the roles of journalists, experts, and citizens. Tom Arnold-Forster provides a bold historical reassessment of Lippmann's intellectual life, offering fresh perspectives on a career at the intersection of daily news and democratic theory.This incisive book shows how Lippmann helped define the public debates of American liberalism from the Progressive Era to the Cold War. By exploring his ideas in their historical context, Arnold-Forster challenges the claim that Lippmann was primarily a theorist of expertise and technocracy. Instead, Lippmann emerges as a strikingly political thinker, public-facing and multifarious, who focused on what politics meant and how it worked in modern democracies. Covering subjects from press freedom to urban reform to economic and foreign policy, while tracing the evolution from his early liberal socialism to later conservative liberalism, this book explores Lippmann's thought as reflecting the protean character of liberal politics and the crises and paradoxes of democracy.Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography is a richly historical account of a complex political thinker. Lippmann's ideas played a formative role in the twentieth century and resonate powerfully with our fraught present.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction: A Mind and Pen

Political, Not Technocratic

Liberal and Variable

Journalism as a Vocation

Chapter 1: Democracy in the Great Society

Youth, Education, and Socialism

Political Life in A Preface to Politics (1913)

Modern Conditions and Social Psychology

From Drift and Mastery (1914) to Public Opinion

Chapter 2: Liberty and the Newspaper Industry

American Journalism and the New Republic

Censorship and Propaganda in the First World War

State and Market in Liberty and the News (1920)

No Objective Standards Here

Chapter 3: Stereotypes and Pseudo-environments

Sources and Targets of Public Opinion (1922)

A Social Psychology of Opinion Formation

Politics and Paradox in Modern Democracy

Experts in the State: How Much Technocracy?

Chapter 4: Intelligence Testing and the Politics of Expertise

The Amateur's Control of the Experts

Democracy as Universal Aristocracy

The Experts Angered by the Amateurs

Political Contest in The Phantom Public (1925)

Chapter 5: A New York World: Urban Liberalism

City and State Government in the New York World

Culture Wars and National Politics, 1925-28

Liberal Modernization in A Preface to Morals (1929)

Wider Syndication at the New York Herald Tribune

Chapter 6: The Great Depression and the Politics of Crisis

Antipolitics and the Failure of Technocracy, 1931-33

Emergency Powers and Constitutional Dictatorship

Liberal Constitutionalism vs. Lawless Totalitarianism

Chapter 7: Constitutional Turmoil in the New Deal State

Which New Deal? TVA, Not NRA

Free Collectivism in The Method of Freedom (1934)

Domestic Origins of The Good Society (1937)

Against Planning and Court Packing

Chapter 8: From Neoliberalism to Military Keynesianism

War and Prices at the Colloque Walter Lippmann (1938)

After Munich: War Production as Industrial Policy

For Price Controls and Full Employment

Chapter 9: The Imperialism of Realism: US Foreign Policy

Empire as "The American Destiny

American Power in the Second World War

US Foreign Policy (1943) and US War Aims (1944)

Imperial History in The Cold War (1947)

Chapter 10: American Conservative Liberal

McCarthyism and The Public Philosophy (1955)

Great Society Redux: Midcentury Liberalism

Fragments of Empire in the Vietnam War

Escalation and Catastrophe, 1965-67)

Conclusion: Lippmann Agonistes

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780691266244

0691266247

OCLC:

1505733225