Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the gilded past and tragic future continues, it becomes imperative for historians to bulldoze the mythology surrounding the rise and decline of American culture and clear a space for honest interpretation of the bygone era. Ronald Steel depicts American political history through the life and work of Walter Lippmann '10, and achieves a syncretic vision of the American glory and dream...
...century's most prolific and widely read journalist, Lippmann consorted with the heroes of American mythology from Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy '40. While his personal advice and machinations influenced the course of the century, Lippmann's life and work signify the success of its pragmatic spiritualism in tackling both human and scientific problems...
Widely recognized as a conservative, Lippmann began and ended his career as a political radical. A critic of many U.S. Cold War policies, he fiercely decried the absurdity of intervention in Vietnam. But the genesis of his concern for social justice was the South Boston slums he visited while a Harvard undergraduate in the early years of the century. Both indignation and guilt over his privileged Manhattan upbringing incited his imagination to challenge the prevailing capitalist orthodoxy at Harvard, embracing socialism as the only guarantor of liberty and justice to all Americans...
...Harvard Steele describes in his early chapter differs vastly from the megalith today's students know. Big-name professors devoted time to undergraduates; patrician competition for acceptance to social clubs was not the exception but the rule; and students lacked the "social awareness" to rally at protests and demonstrations. Lippmann's Jewish heritage barred his entrance to most college groups and organizations. The Crimson blackballed him. But Lippmann gained recognition as one of the keenest minds of his class. To strengthen his grasp of the moral issues socialism involved, he pored through volumes of Fabian society tracts and Marxist literature...
NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell American Dreams: Lost and Found, Studs Terkel ∙ China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Lyndon, Merle Miller ∙ The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙ The Soul of the Wolf, Michael Fox Walter Lippmann and the American Century, Ronald Steel