1st Edition

Liberty and the News

By Walter Lippmann Copyright 1995
100 Pages
by Routledge

100 Pages
by Routledge

100 Pages
by Routledge

This little gem of a book, which first appeared in 1920, was written in Walter Lippmann's thirtieth year. He was still full of the passionate faith in democracy that was evident in his writings before the First World War.  From today's point of view, Lippmann's argument seems unusually prescient. He was troubled by distortions in newspaper journalism, but was also deeply aware of the need to... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition; 1: Journalism and the Higher Law; 2: What Modern Liberty Means; 3: Liberty and the News

Biography

Walter Lippmann