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Lippmann was born in New York City to German-Jewish parents, Jacob and Daisy Baum Lippmann. The family lived a comfortable, if not privileged, life. Annual family trips to Europe were the rule.

At age 17, he entered Harvard University where he studied under George Santayana , William James , and Graham Wallas . He concentrated on Philosophy and languages (he spoke both German and French) and graduated after only three years of study.

In 1913 Lippmann, Herbert Croly , and Walter Weyl became the founding editors of '' The New Republic '' magazine. During World War I , Lippmann became an advisor to President Woodrow Wilson and assisted in the drafting of Wilson's '' Fourteen Points ''.

Lippmann had wide access to the nation's decision makers and had no sympathy for Communism . But the Golos Spy Ring used Mary Price , his secretary, to garner information on items Lippmann chose not to write about or names of Lippmann's sources, often not carried in stories, but of use to the MGB (USSR) .

Early on, Lippmann was optimistic about American ''.

''See also:'' Harold Lasswell , Edward Bernays

It was Lippmann who first identified the tendency of journalists to generalize about other people based on fixed ideas. In addition to his newspaper columns, he published several books. Lippmann was the first to bring the phrase " Cold War " to common currency in his 1947 book by the same name.


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  • “The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.”

  • “A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.”

  • "In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and ….superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to ….get what it thinks it likes."

  • "So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it."

  • "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."



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