Public Opinion / A Preface to Politics (Annotated): The Collected Works of Walter Lippmann
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Two works by Walter Lippmann in one collection with an active table of contents.Works Public Opinion (1922)."The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them into relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act"The World Outside and the Pictures in Our HeadsCensorship and PrivacyContact and OpportunityTime and AttentionSpeed, Words, and ClearnessStereotypesStereotypes as DefenseThe Enlisting of InterestSelf-Interest ReconsideredThe Transfer of InterestYes or NoLeaders and the Rank and Fileetc.A Preface to Politics (1913)."Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. We extend this into all our thinking. Between us and the realities of social life we build up a mass of generalizations, abstract ideas, ancient glories, and personal wishes. They simplify and soften experience. It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves. We worry about their fate and forget their original content."Routineer and InventorThe TabooThe Changing FocusThe Golden Rule and AfterWell Meaning but the Chicago Vice ReportSome Necessary IconoclasmThe Making of CreedsThe Red HerringRevolution and Culture