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Questions about Walter Lippmann

Short answers, pulled from the story.

When was Walter Lippmann born and where did he grow up?

Walter Lippmann was born on the 23rd of September 1889 on New York's Upper East Side. He grew up as the only child in a wealthy family with German-Jewish parents.

What books did Walter Lippmann write about public opinion and the Cold War?

Walter Lippmann published Public Opinion in 1922 to examine how people perceive reality. His 1947 book by the same name introduced the phrase Cold War to describe tensions with the Soviet Union.

How did Walter Lippmann serve during World War I?

Walter Lippmann was commissioned a captain in the Army on the 28th of June 1918. He worked at the intelligence section of the AEF headquarters in France and attached himself to the American Commission to negotiate peace in December.

Why is the Lippmann-Dewey Debate significant in communication studies?

The Lippmann-Dewey Debate started to be widely discussed by the late 1980s in American communication studies circles. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky cited Lippmann's advocacy of manufacture of consent in their work Manufacturing Consent.

When did Walter Lippmann receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom and when did he die?

President Lyndon Johnson presented Walter Lippmann with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on the 14th of September 1964. He died in New York City due to cardiac arrest in 1974 after retiring from his syndicated column in 1967.