http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=24689

Although I agree with much of what Edward Said had to say about Walter Lippmann in his essay Grey Eminence, On Walter Lippmann, in Reflections on Exile.  Lippmann besides being The Establismentarian of  his or any other American generation, of political writers and thinkers, was also a newspaperman of distinction, of a kind of Olympian highmindedness, that has been absent since his departure from our national life: though their are many Pretenders, they remain just that.He was a writer of lucid, even elegant style and a man of ideas and deep thought, although one can disagree with those thoughts. He is never a tedious propagandist as so many of the idealogues that claim the territory of the pundit, in our present time. Make an wise invest of your time and money in a copy of this book and become familiar with great wrting, Lippman was a student of another American original thinker William James,he learned well; he had no equal in American Journalism, some might say in American political thought. You might also invest in a copy of Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel, for a look at the life and times of an American Intellectual and the dangers faced by the lure of powerful men, and their need for the ear of sympathetic, yet detached policy analysist, that remained off the record. Lippmann reveled in being that anonymous insider with connections everywhere. He was before that great self-advertiser Henry Kissinger, a great but somewhat self-effacing man, willing to discreetly advise those in power and in need of politically sound advice.Or at the least a man carefully attuned to the modulations of the political climate of opinion and the maintenance of a necessary political uprightness, to put it in Puritan terms.

http://www.amazon.com/Walter-Lippmann-American-Century-Ronald/dp/0765804646

Also of great interest is the novel by Louis Auchincloss, The House of the Prophet. A novelist and a novel unsuited to a time of conspicuious literary experiment, even a certain voguisness. But Mr. Auchincloss has inhabited the life of Mr. Lippmann, as author of a compelling fictive account of that life. Mr. Auchincloss was Mr. Lippmann’s lawyer during the latter part of his life.

http://www.amazon.com/House-Prophet-Louis-Auchincloss/dp/0395290848/ref=tmm_h…

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