Walter Lippmann (3 books) (pdf) torrent

Walter Lippmann - Men of Destiny (Transaction, 2003; originally 1927).

-- The Phantom Public (Transaction, 1993; originally 1927).

-- Public Opinion (Transaction, 1991; originally 1921).


These are reprocessed and improved versions of older scan-based pdf files. The source files were pretty good, so these new ones are as well. But Public Opinion contains some underlning.


about the author (from wikipedia):

Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974) was an American public intellectual, writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War; he coined the term stereotype in the modern psychological meaning as well. Lippmann won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his syndicated newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow" and one for his 1961 interview of Nikita Khruschev.

To Lippmann's mind, democratic ideals had deteriorated, voters were largely ignorant about issues and policies, they lacked the competence to participate in public life and cared little for participating in the political process. In Public Opinion (1922), Lippmann noted that the stability the government achieved during the patronage era of the 19th century was threatened by modern realities. He wrote that a “governing class” must rise to face the new challenges.

Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman used one of Lippmann's catch phrases -- the "Manufacture of Consent" -- for the title of their book, Manufacturing Consent, which contains sections critical of Lippmann's views about the media.