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Steel, Ronald.

Walter Lippmann and the American century / by Ronald Steel.

1st edition.

Boston : Little, Brown, ©1980.

©1980.

xvii, 669 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974.

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Biographies.

"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 632-636) and index.

Bancroft Prize, 1981.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, 1980

The only child -- Harvard '10 -- A friend to the masses -- Muckrakers and socialists -- A little iconoclasm -- Reputation -- " Agitation isn't my job" -- "Hypocritical neutrality" -- Electing a war president -- To the colors -- The inquiry -- Captain Lippmann, propagandist -- "This is not peace" -- Pictures in their heads -- A conspicuous race -- Lord of the tower -- Tyranny of the masses -- A muted trumpet -- The Mexican connection -- Men of destiny -- The disinterested man -- The end of the world -- An "amiable boy scout" -- A reluctant convert -- Times out of joint -- Treading water -- A gate unlocked -- Starting over -- The phony peace -- Tried and found wanting -- Panic and bungling -- Realpolitik -- Drifting toward catastrophe -- Swimming up Niagara -- War scare -- Room at the top -- Overtaken by events -- A private philosophy -- Waiting for an innovator -- At the new frontier -- Mythmaking -- "A man for this season" -- Seduction and betrayal -- An end and a beginning -- The worst of times.

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