Volume 27, Number 15 · October 9, 1980
The Mysteries of Mr. Lippmann
By Anthony Lewis
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
by Ronald Steel
Little, Brown/Atlantic Monthly Press, 669 pp., $19.95
Statesmanship, Walter Lippmann wrote in 1929, 'requires the courage which is possible only in a mind that is detached from the agitations of the moment. It requires the insight which comes only from an objective and discerning knowledge of the facts, and a high and imperturbable disinterestedness' (p. 518). He could have been—he may have been—writing about himself.
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