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Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), writer

Walter Lipmann was born on September 23, 1889 in New York City.He was a political journalist 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.

He died on December 14, 1974.

Bibliography:

• A Preface to Politics[?] (1913)
• Public Opinion[?] (1922)
• The Phantom Public[?] (1925)
• A Preface to Morals[?] (1929)
• The Good Society[?] (1937)
• The Cold War[?] (1947)
• Essays in the Public Philosophy[?] (1955)

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