The Sage of Washington
By Samuel Earle••The New York Review of Books
Walter Lippmann was the most influential political commentator of his generation, but behind his preternatural confidence was a far more complicated and unsettled character.
In July 1914 the twenty-four-year-old Walter Lippmann was traveling in Europe to celebrate the completion of his second book, Drift and Mastery, to recruit British writers for the magazine he was cof…