PortadaGruposCharlasMásPanorama actual
Buscar en el sitio
Este sitio utiliza cookies para ofrecer nuestros servicios, mejorar el rendimiento, análisis y (si no estás registrado) publicidad. Al usar LibraryThing reconoces que has leído y comprendido nuestros términos de servicio y política de privacidad. El uso del sitio y de los servicios está sujeto a estas políticas y términos.

Resultados de Google Books

Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.

Cargando...

Walter Lippmann and the American Century (1980)

por Ronald Steel

MiembrosReseñasPopularidadValoración promediaMenciones
267198,841 (3.45)8
Walter Lippmann began his career as a brilliant young man at Harvardstudying under George Santayana, taking tea with William James, a radical outsider arguing socialism with anyone who would listen and he ended it in his eighties, writing passionately about the agony of rioting in the streets, war in Asia, and the collapse of a presidency. In between he lived through two world wars, and a depression that shook the foundations of American capitalism. Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) has been hailed as the greatest journalist of his age. For more than sixty years he exerted unprecedented influence on American public opinion through his writing, especially his famous newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow." Beginning with The New Republic in the halcyon days prior to Woodrow Wilson and the First World War, millions of Americans gradually came to rely on Lippmann to comprehend the vital issues of the day. In this absorbing biography, Ronald Steel meticulously documents the philosophers and politics, the friendships and quarrels, the trials and triumphs of this man who for six decades stood at the center of American political life. Lippmann's experience spanned a period when the American empire was born, matured, and began to wane, a time some have called "the American Century." No one better captured its possibilities and wrote about them so wisely and so well, no one was more the mind, the voice, and the conscience of that era than Walter Lippmann: journalist, moralist, public philosopher.… (más)
Ninguno
Cargando...

Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará.

Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.

» Ver también 8 menciones

1709 Walter Lippmann and the American Century, by Ronald Steel (read 26 Apr 1982) (National Book Award biography prize in 1982) (National Book Critics Circle non-fiction award for 1980) For the period covering Lippmann's life to World War II I was very impressed, then I was very turned off by the divorce and remarriage in 1938--Lippmann carried on an affair with the wife of Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a very close friend of his, and both Lippmann and Armstrong's wife got divorces so they could marry each other. Lippmann's second wife was a fallen-away Catholic and when Lippmann became old she dumped him in a nursing home and went off on her own but she died Feb 16, 1974. Lippmann was born 23 Sep 1889 in New York and died there Dec 14, 1974. The book's treatment of the time after World War II was opinionated and the author is apparently of the school which believes Russia could have been coaxed into behaving by a different posture by us after World War II. This to me is incredible, and I have very little patience with a thesis that Henry Wallace was right in those years. Much of the treatment of those years seems superficial. Nor could I help but feel Lippmann was not very astute. He fluctuated all over the lot: was a Socialist for a time after he graduated from Harvard in 1910, was with the New Republic as TR Progressive, then with Wilson, but opposed ratification of the Versailles Treaty; then went to the New York World till 1931, when he started his column which he wrote till 1967. Most presidents he was "for" at the beginning, then turned against. It is a good book, but I can't say I admire Lippmann--he was not my kind of person. But I am glad I read the book, albeit I do not think it was too well-written. It could have used a better editing. But they were memorable years, 1910 to 1967, and I enjoyed reading about them. ( )
1 vota Schmerguls | Nov 12, 2008 |
sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Debes iniciar sesión para editar los datos de Conocimiento Común.
Para más ayuda, consulta la página de ayuda de Conocimiento Común.
Título canónico
Título original
Títulos alternativos
Fecha de publicación original
Personas/Personajes
Lugares importantes
Acontecimientos importantes
Películas relacionadas
Epígrafe
Dedicatoria
Primeras palabras
Citas
Últimas palabras
Aviso de desambiguación
Editores de la editorial
Blurbistas
Idioma original
DDC/MDS Canónico
LCC canónico
Walter Lippmann began his career as a brilliant young man at Harvardstudying under George Santayana, taking tea with William James, a radical outsider arguing socialism with anyone who would listen and he ended it in his eighties, writing passionately about the agony of rioting in the streets, war in Asia, and the collapse of a presidency. In between he lived through two world wars, and a depression that shook the foundations of American capitalism. Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) has been hailed as the greatest journalist of his age. For more than sixty years he exerted unprecedented influence on American public opinion through his writing, especially his famous newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow." Beginning with The New Republic in the halcyon days prior to Woodrow Wilson and the First World War, millions of Americans gradually came to rely on Lippmann to comprehend the vital issues of the day. In this absorbing biography, Ronald Steel meticulously documents the philosophers and politics, the friendships and quarrels, the trials and triumphs of this man who for six decades stood at the center of American political life. Lippmann's experience spanned a period when the American empire was born, matured, and began to wane, a time some have called "the American Century." No one better captured its possibilities and wrote about them so wisely and so well, no one was more the mind, the voice, and the conscience of that era than Walter Lippmann: journalist, moralist, public philosopher.

No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca.

Descripción del libro
Resumen Haiku

Debates activos

Ninguno

Cubiertas populares

Enlaces rápidos

Valoración

Promedio: (3.45)
0.5
1
1.5
2 1
2.5
3 4
3.5
4 4
4.5 1
5

¿Eres tú?

Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing.

 

Acerca de | Contactar | LibraryThing.com | Privacidad/Condiciones | Ayuda/Preguntas frecuentes | Blog | Tienda | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliotecas heredadas | Primeros reseñadores | Conocimiento común | 203,186,869 libros! | Barra superior: Siempre visible