Dec 20, 2009

A Preface to Morals | Critical Overview

Lippmann’s Influence
Walter Lippmann is generally considered to be the most important, most popular, and most widely influential political journalist of the twentieth century.

Clinton Rossiter and James Lare, in The Essential Lippmann, consider him ‘‘perhaps the most important American political thinker of the twentieth century’’ and ‘‘a major contributor to the American way of life and thought.’’ D. Steven Blum, in Walter Lippmann, asserts that Lippmann is ‘‘the century’s foremost political journalist’’ and ‘‘the...