Walter Lippmann (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
Walter Lippmann was born on September 23, 1889, in New York City, the only child of Jacob Lippmann, a wealthy clothing manufacturer and real estate broker, and Daisy Baum Lippmann, a cultivated graduate of Hunter College. Both parents were American-born, of German-Jewish ancestry. Encouraged to develop an appreciation of the arts, young Lippmann was taken by his parents nearly every summer to Europe, where he frequented the great museums.
When he was six years old, Lippmann entered Dr. Julius Sachs’s School for Boys, where he excelled in history,...
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