190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
189 Pages
by
Routledge
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This set of brief pieces examines the relation of power to knowledge. Lippmann paid little homage to the innate wisdom of the people. While he had no wish to disenfranchise citizens, he believed elites drove the engines of power. His point was that liberty and democracy require government that will, when necessary, "swim against the tides of private feelings." Because the public is too divided,... Read more
IntroductionWilliam JamesLincoln SteffensGeorge SantayanaUpton SinclairLewis Jerome JohnsonPaul MariettJohn ReedSigmund FreudWarren G. HardingJames CoxH. G. WellsGeorges ClemenceauAlexander MeiklejohnWilliam Jennings BryanH. L. MenckenNicholas Murray ButlerSinclair LewisWalter WeylCharles Evans HughesDwight W. MorrowThomas A. EdisonCandidate Franklin D. RooseveltOliver Wendell HolmesCalvin CoolidgeCharles Townsend CopelandJane AddamsTheodore RooseveltAmelia EarhartNewton Diehl BakerColonel HouseLouis D. BrandeisWilliam BorahWoodrow WilsonWilliam Allen WhiteHenry WallaceAlfred SmithHarry HopkinsMahatma GandhiHarold IckesCharles de GaulleDag HammarskjoldJ. William FulbrightPope John XXIIIHerbert HooverAdlai StevensonKonrad AdenauerJohn F. KennedyEugene McCarthy
Biography
Walter Lippmann
