Public philosopher: selected letters of Walter Lippmann.

National Review | June 20, 1986| | Copyright

Public Philosopher: Selected Letters of Walter Lippmann

Public Philosopher: Selected Letters of Walter Lippmann, edited by John Morton Blum (Ticknor & Fields, 652 pp., $29.95)

"THE TRAGEDY of a whole life,' the 18-year-old Walter Lippmann confided to a friend, "may lie in an unfulfilled dance card.' Walter Lippmann was once 18? Walter Lippmann could write that? In a word: yes. Even Walter Lippmann was once young.

But wait: In the same letter the ever nimble Lippmann escorted his correspondent from the dance floor to a smoke-filled study, while ...

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