Drift and mastery : an attempt to diagnose the current unrest

190 Pages·08.662 MB·English

by  Walter Lippmann

Drift and Mastery

Drift and Mastery
An Attempt to Diagnose
the Current Unrest
Walter Lippmann
"Men find themselves working and thinking and feel
ing in relation to an environment, which ... is
without precedent in the history of the world. "
Graham Wallas, The Great Society
With a revised introduction and notes
by WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG
The University of Wisconsin Press
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"Walter Lippmann's Drift and Mastery" by William E. Leuchtenburg,
copyright © 1961 by Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Revisions and additions to "Walter Lippmann's Drift and Mastery,"
copyright © 1985 by The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
All rights reserved
First Wisconsin printing 1985
This edition first ·published in 1961 by Prentice-Hall, Inc.,
Englewtod Cliffs, New Jersey 07632
Originally published in 1914 by Mitchell Kennerley
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Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 0-299-10604-7 paper; LC 85-40764
A Note About This Edition
The original edition of Drift and Mastery
was published by Mitchell Kennerley in 1914. Save
for the deletion or rearrangement of a few foot
notes, this new edition follows faithfully the original
text. I am grateful to Howard Gottlieb, Librarian of
the Historical Manuscripts Collection, Sterling Me
morial Library, Yale University, for permitting me
to consult the original handwritten draft of Drift
and Mastery in the Library's Lippmanniana collec
tion.
W.E.L.

Table of Contents
Walter Lippmann's Drift and Mastery, 1
Introduction, 15
Part One
1
The Themes of Muckraking, 23
2
New Incentives, 35
3
The Magic of Property, 45
4
Caveat Emptor, 52
5
A Key to the Labor Movement, 57
6
The Funds of Progress, 68
7
"A Nation of Villagers," 77
VII
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part Two
8
A Big World and Little Men, 91
9
Drift, 101
10
The Rock of Ages, 113
Part Three
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A Note on the Woman's Movement, 123
12
Bogeys, 135
13
Poverty, Chastity, Obedience, 140
14
Mastery, 146
15
Modern Communion, 152
16
Fact and Fancy, 158
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