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Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
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Routledge
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A great editorial commentator of the twentieth century, Walter Lippmann, was a major contributor to the central periodicals and journals of the age, including the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, the New Republic, Saturday Review, and Yale Review. Men of Destiny, a set of biographical essays on leading figures of Lippmann's day, is arguably the best single source for understanding the... Read more
Al Smith: a man of destiny -- Calvin Coolidge: Puritanism de luxe -- The causes of political indifference to-day -- The Catholicism of Al Smith -- Bryan and the dogma of majority rule -- H.L. Mencken -- Sinclair Lewis -- The nature of the battle over censorship -- An anticipation of Harding -- An early estimate of Mr. McAdoo -- Wilson and House -- Borah -- The outlawry of war -- The greatness of Mr. Mellon -- The Kellogg Doctrine: vested rights and nationalism in Latin America -- Empire: the days of our nonage are over -- Second best statesmen -- To Justice Holmes.
Biography
Walter Lippmann,
