Walter Lippmann and the American Century
By Ronald Steel
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Walter Lippmann and the American Century (1980) is Ronald Steel's biography of Walter Lippmann, the most influential American political columnist of the 20th century. Steel follows Lippmann from Harvard and the founding of The New Republic through his work on Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and decades of commentary, using his life to trace American politics and ideas from the Progressive Era to Vietnam.
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- Fareed Zakaria: “There’s a wonderful biography of him by a guy named Ronald Steele called Walter Lippmann and the American Century. It’s a great intellectual history of America from the 20s to the 60s or 70s told through the life of this one guy.”