Lipp Service
One of the most commanding biographies I’ve ever read is Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel. Steel’s biography won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award, a National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, the LA Times Book Prize for History and was nominated for a Pulitzer. It reveals the life and times of one of the finest and most agile journalistic minds in history. Lippmann himself was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for his writing and tens of thousands of Americans got their world view from him. He coined the terms “Cold War” and “stereotypes” to help explain world events and he advised several presidents, especially Woodrow Wilson in divvying up Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East after WW I using the concept of spheres of influence.