num_pages: 690
description: The journalist Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was a magisterial figure who relished his role as an insider, an adviser to presidents, a shaper &amp; sometime purveyor of government policy. Drawing on conversations with Lippmann &amp; exclusive access to his private papers, Ronald Steel documents the broad flow of Lippmann's career from his brilliant Harvard days &amp; his role in helping formulate Wilson's Fourteen Points in World War I to his bitter break with Lyndon Johnson over Vietnam. Written with clarity &amp; objectivity, this definitive biography presents a commanding portrait of a complicated man &amp; "guides its reader through the first three-quarters of this American century"--The New Yorker.
language: English
title: Walter Lippmann and the American Century
titlecomplete: Walter Lippmann and the American Century
characters: Walter Lippmann
genres: 20th Century, History, American History, Politics, Journalism, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 102
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award
category: Autobiography/Biography (Paperback), awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Bancroft Prize, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover)
publisher: Routledge