Word: lippmann
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...WALTER LIPPMANN AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY by Ronald Steel; Atlantic-Little, Brown; 669pages...
...tutored by George Santayana and recruited as a protégé by William James and Teddy Roosevelt; he lived long enough to receive an honorary degree (from Princeton) on the same platform with Bob Dylan. During his 85 years, Walter Lippmann came to know twelve U.S. Presidents personally and nearly everyone else who mattered in the 20th century. He consorted with poets and politicians, philosophers and financiers. He discussed psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, socialism with George Bernard Shaw, economics with John Maynard Keynes, law with Louis Brandeis, Utopias with H.G. Wells, painting with Bernard Berenson and the grandeur...
Getting such a long and varied life between the covers of a single volume seems challenging enough; harder still to record the vast panorama of history that Lippmann observed and, in some instances, helped shape. Author Ronald Steel performs these two tasks brilliantly. Walter Lippmann and the American Century thoroughly lives up to its title. It is both an engrossing biography and a splendid primer to six decades of turbulent political life...