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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781477305300
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWright, Benjamin F.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aFive Public Philosophies of Walter Lippmann /
_cBenjamin F. Wright.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©1973
300 _a1 online resource (172 p.)
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337 _acomputer
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tINTRODUCTION --
_t1. The Age of Youthful Optimism --
_t2. Democracy and the Defects of Public Opinion --
_t3. The State as Mediator --
_t4. Security through a Compensated Economy --
_t5. The Free Market, Civility, and Natural Law --
_t6. From Scientific Realism to Romantic Renaissance --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aEssayist, editor, columnist, author of many books, and winner of a special Pulitzer Prize citation in 1958 for his powers of news analysis, Walter Lippmann both appraised and influenced twentieth-century American politics. No other author of the century dealt with the persistent problems of politics from so many approaches, was so widely read, or varied so widely in his conclusions. Benjamin F. Wright’s study is the first book devoted to an exposition and analysis of Lippmann’s nine “books of political philosophy,” as James Reston called them. These books provide a fascinating study of changes in the political and economic ideas of the most important journalist of his time. Lippmann’s books published in 1913 and 1914 reflect the optimism of the Progressive Era, of faith in science and in the ability of people to choose their goals and attain them. In 1922 and 1925, while editor of the New York World, Lippmann wrote searching, often pessimistic analyses of what he believed to be the prevailing assumptions regarding the nature and role of public opinion. Although in the Coolidge era he relegated government to a minor role as mediator, he became an enthusiastic defender of the achievements of the early New Deal. Two years later in a longer look, he found the same New Deal following the path toward totalitarianism. Keynes was discarded and his place taken by the economics of Adam Smith, bolstered by the common law of Coke and the Constitution of the founders. Finally, in 1955, in the extremely popular and very engaging Public Philosophy, there is a lament for the “decline of the West” and a plea to return to the age of civility and natural law. In a final analytical chapter, Wright presents a critique of Lippmann’s historical understanding and the modern applications of the tradition of natural law. He also assesses Lippmann’s inability to translate the “public philosophy” into programs or institutional changes and the failure to account for the expansion of governmental functions together with the continued strength of constitutional democracy in the West.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / General.
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