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Men of Destiny by Walter Lippmann; with a new introduction by Paul Roazen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Men of Destiny about?

A great editorial commentator of the twentieth century, Walter Lippmann, was a major contributor to the central periodicals and journals of the age, including the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, the New Republic, Saturday Review, and Yale Review. Men of Destiny, a set of biographical essays on leading figures of Lippmann's day, is arguably the best single source for understanding the persons and the policies of the post-World War I period. In a series of vignettes, the reader is introduced into the lively world of Al Smith, Calvin Coolidge, William Jennings Bryan, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Warren Harding, Andrew Mellon, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The collection offers a rare glimpse of the first truly modern generation of American politics and society, and also a type of serious, detached writing that presumes a literate audience, but also one not given over to bias and hostility. The magic of this volume, however, is not in its litany of figures great and small, but Lippmann's comprehensive understanding of the place of America in world affairs. His essay on American imperialism remains a classic: "All the world thinks of the United States today as an empire, exce

Who reads Men of Destiny?

Author

Walter Lippmann; with a new introduction by Paul Roazen

Publisher

Transaction Publishers

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351309301

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Memoir, Social Science