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Published by Martino Fine Books, 2022
ISBN 10: 1684227097ISBN 13: 9781684227099
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Published by Transaction Publishers, 1993
ISBN 10: 1560006773ISBN 13: 9781560006770
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Published by Wilder Publications, Incorporated, 2021
ISBN 10: 1515449564ISBN 13: 9781515449560
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Published by Wilder Publications, 2023
ISBN 10: 151544953XISBN 13: 9781515449539
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Published by Dead Authors Society, 2024
ISBN 10: 1774646609ISBN 13: 9781774646601
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Published by Wilder Publications, 2023
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Published by Wilder Publications, 2023
ISBN 10: 1515449556ISBN 13: 9781515449553
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Publication Date: 2022
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LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1925 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 218 Language: English Pages: 218.
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Published by USA/UK, Transaction Publishers, 2005
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Sehr gut. Sixth printing (Original 1927). xlviii, 195 S., 18cm Zustand: Namenseintrag, sonst sehr gut --- Inhalt: englischer Text. In an era disgusted with politicians and the various instruments of "direct democracy," Walter Lippmann`s The Phantom Public remains as relevant as ever. It reveals Lippmann at a time when he was most critical of the ills of American democracy. Antipopulist in sentiment, this volume defends elitism as a serious and distinctive intellectual option, one with considerable precursors in the American past. Lippmann`s demythologized view of the American system of government resonates today. The Phantom Public discusses the "disenchanted man" who has become disillusioned not only with democracy, but also with reform. According to Lippmann, the average voter is incapable of governance; what is called the public is merely a "phantom." In terms of policy-making, the distinction should not be experts versus amateurs, but insiders versus outsiders. Lippmann challenges the core assumption of Progressive politics as well as any theory that pretends to leave political decision making in the hands of the people as a whole. In his biography Walter Lippmann and the American Century, Ronald Steel praised The Phantom Public as "one of Lippmann`s most powerfully argued and revealing books. In it he came fully to terms with the inadequacy of traditional democratic theory." This volume is part of a continuing series on the major works of Walter Lippmann. As more and more Americans are inclined to become apathetic to the political system, this classic will be essential reading for students, teachers, and researchers of political science and history. PS5-9 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 200.
Published by Routledge 2017-09-21, 2017
ISBN 10: 1138537411ISBN 13: 9781138537415
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Published by Harcourt, Brace And Co.,, 1925
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. The book has some foxing on the first few pages. Book.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1925
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in Good+ to Very Good condition, 8vo. Blue cloth with a printed label on spine, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Tight binding, light wear to tips and spine ends, spine label somewhat darkened, stain to front board (less conspicuous than appears in photo), small bookseller's label on rear paste-down, prior owner signature(?) on front paste-down. Bookseller accession no.: RT554.
FIRST EDITION. Half title with works by Lippmann on the verso + TP + [5] = Dedication page + [7] = Quote page + [9] = Contents + half title + 12-205 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition. Lippmann's Disillusionment with American "Democracy" Grows Even Worse This book is a follow-up to his popular 1922 work, Public Opinion. Here Lippmann moves even further into his disillusionment with democratic politics. This was partly in response to the rise of fascism under Benito Mussolini in Italy, but that was only one concrete confirmation of Lippmann's worst fears for democracy.Here he presents an even more forceful critique of what he takes to be mistaken conceptions of "the public" found in popular democratic theory. Lippmann counters that the public is none of the things posited by these popular theories. Instead, the public is but a "mere phantom," an abstraction, embedded in a "false philosophy" that depends on a "mystical notion of society." Democratic theories, he argues, vaguely assert that the public can act competently to direct public affairs and that the functioning of government is the will of the people, but Lippmann dismisses such notions of the capacities of the public as a fiction. Against these idealizations, Lippmann posits that society is made up of two types of people: agents and bystanders (also referred to as insiders and outsiders). The agent is someone who can act "executively' on the basis of his own opinions to address the substance of an issue, and the bystander is the public, merely a spectator of action. But these roles are not fixed or mutually exclusive. "The actors in one affair are the spectators of another, and men are continually passing back and forth between the field where they are executives and the field where they are members of a public. The distinction between agents and bystanders is not an absolute one." Most of the time, however, the public is just a "deaf spectator in the back row" because, for the most part, individuals are more interested in their private affairs than in matters that govern society and they know very little about public issues. According to Lippmann, it is "the function of public opinion to check the use of force" by using its own force. Public opinion responds to failures in the administration of government by deciding, through voting, whether to throw one party out in favor or another. The public, however, moves to such an action not by its own volition but by being led there by the insiders who can identify and assess the situation for them. The public is incapable of deciding rationally about whether there is a crisis: "Public opinion is not a rational force it does not reason, investigate, invent, persuade, bargain, or settle."Lippmann is openly elitist. His theory of society is a theory that puts its trust chiefly in the individuals directly concerned, i.e. the "insiders," and not the "public."The book famously provoked a response from philosopher John Dewey, who argued in his 1927 book, The Public and its Problems, that the public was not a phantom but merely "in eclipse" and that robust democratic politics are possible. Today, the exchange between Lippmann and Dewey continues to be important for their critique of contemporary civic journalism. Original publisher's blue cloth which is lightly stained and bumped along with a well-preserved printed label on a white field to the spine (which is just a bit sun darkened). There is some very minor wear to the spine tips. With a former owner's 2634 Le Conte Ave. Berkeley Feb. 1926). Otherwise, a clean, tight, and bright copy of this important political critique by Lippmann. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
Published by Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1925
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1st Edition. First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by Author. Inscribed "To an old friend from an old friend". This possibly refers to Dorothy Elmhist (nee Whitney) of Dartington Hall - see provenance. DESCRIPTION: Blue cloth with white paper title plate to spine. From private library at Dartington Hall. Author inscription and signature to ffep dated 1925 Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Private library number to lower spine end. Clean cloth with toned title plate to spine. Tightly bound with toned intact endpapers with strong hinges. Dartington Hall stamps to front paste down and publication page. Author inscription to ffep with additional date stamp. Faint spotting to endpaper gutter. Heavy foxing to prelims and all pages up to page 37. Lighter foxing primarily to page margins thereafter with occasional heavy foxing to some pages. Heavy spotted text block edge. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 205. Size: 8vo 21cm by 14cm. PROVENANCE: DARTINGTON HALL LIBRARY. Dartington Hall School was founded in 1925 by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst. Dorothy (1887-1968) was the daughter of the well-known American financier and statesman, William C. Whitney. Dorothy married American investment banker Willard Straight. In 1914, along with the help of both Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly, Dorothy and her husband founded the influential liberal magazine, The New Republic. Following Willards death four years later, Dorothy remarried in 1925 to Leonard Elmhirst (1893-1974) an intrepid agronomist. In the 1920s, Leonard lived in India serving as the Secretary to the 1913 Nobel Laureate for Literature Rabindranath Tagore. With funding from Dorothy, Leonard had helped Tagore set up the Institute for Rural Reconstruction that would have a material influence on the Elmhirsts Utopian experiment at Dartington. Dartington Hall was a social and cultural experiment exemplifying an influential moment of British and international social reform triggered by the First World War. Reformers considered the war as a sign that the self-oriented and materialist nineteenth-century doctrine of laissez-faire liberalism had failed. Dartington Hall was one of many attempts to pursue a more Utopian approach. AUTHOR: Walter Lippmann (1889 -1974) American writer, reporter and political commentator First to introduce the concept of The Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" as well as critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his 1922 book Public Opinion Lippmann also played a notable role in Woodrow Wilsons post-World War I board of inquiry, as its research director His views regarding the role of journalism in a democracy were contrasted with the contemporaneous writings of John Dewey in what has been retrospectively named the Lippmann-Dewey debate Lippmann won two Pulitzer Prizes. BOOK RESUME: In an era disgusted with politicians and the instruments of 'direct democracy,' Walter Lippmanns The Phantom Public remains as relevant as ever. It reveals Lippmann when he was most critical of the ills of American democracy. Anti-populist in sentiment, he defends elitism as a serious and distinctive intellectual option. Lippmanns demythologized view of the American system of government resonates today. The Phantom Public discusses the 'disenchanted man' who has become disillusioned not only with democracy. According to Lippmann, the average voter is incapable of governance; the public is merely a 'phantom. ' In terms of policy-making, the distinction should not be experts versus amateurs, but insiders versus outsiders. Lippmann challenges the core assumption of Progressive politics as well as any theory that pretends to leave political decision making in the hands of the people as a whole. Inscribed and Signed by Author.