The Overrated Father of Modern Liberalism

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The Overrated Father of Modern Liberalism

A new biography of the journalist Walter Lippmann bashes conservatives but adds value.

Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography
by Tom Arnold-Forster, Princeton University Press
368 pages, $35.00

In 1982 Ronald Steel won the National Book Award for his voluminous biography of the long-lived public intellectual Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)...