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Walter Lippmann
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Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) was an American journalist, writer, politician, and consultant. Born and deceased in New York City, he was educated at Harvard University. His professional work focused on politics, mass media, and journalism. Lippmann received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Peabody Awards. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa Society, American Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Lippmann wrote in English and is associated with works including *The Phantom Public*, *U.S. Foreign Policy*, *The Great Filibuster*, *Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment*, and *Le colloque Walter Lippmann*. He is also noted for the quote: "You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers." His remains were buried in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1889
- Died
- 1974
- Works
- 128
Top works
- Repeal of the eighteenth amendment
- U.S. Foreign policy
- The great filibuster
- Le colloque Walter Lippmann
- The phantom public
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1889-09-23
- Active to
- 1974-12-14
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 100
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 31,554x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,798x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,464x
- A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
· 1943 · cited 13,229x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.”
- “The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.”
- “A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ...Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.”
- “You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.”
- “[A]ll achievement should be measured in human happiness.”
- “Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Walter Lippmann, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~22 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 – December 14, 1974) was an American journalist. With a career spanning 60 years, he is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of the Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, as well as critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his 1922 Public Opinion.
Lippmann also played a notable role as research director of Woodrow Wilson's post–World War I board of inquiry. His views on the role of journalism in a democracy were contrasted with the contemporaneous writings of John Dewey in what has been retrospectively named the Lippmann–Dewey Debate. Lippmann won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his syndicated newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow" and one for his 1961 interview of Nikita Khrushchev.
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