Works

Books - all out of print except Public Opinion

  • A Preface to Politics (1913)
  • Drift and Mastery (1914)
  • The Stakes of Diplomacy (1915)
  • The Political Scene (1919)
  • Liberty and the News (1920)
  • Public Opinion (1922)
  • The Phantom Public (1925)
  • Men of Destiny (1927)
  • American Inquisitors (1928)
  • A Preface to Morals (1928)
  • The Method of Freedom (1934)
  • The New Imperative (1935)
  • The Good Society (1937)
  • U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (1943)
  • U.S. War Aims (1944)
  • The Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy (1947)
  • Isolation and Alliances: An American Speaks to the British (1952)
  • The Public Philosophy (1955)
  • The Communist World and Ours (1959)
  • The Coming Tests With Russia (1961)
  • Western Unity and the Common Market (1962)
  • An Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society (1973)

Columns

  • Today and Tomorrow was published weekly in the New York Herald Tribune from 1931 to 1962.
  • The World (1921-1931)
  • The New Republic (1914-1921) - Lippmann was close to the journal from its inception, but records of its early years were lost. Arthur Schlessinger and Gilbert Harrison of the New Republic worked on a collection of manuscripts published in 1970 Early Writings (Liverwright Publishing Corp NY SBN: 87140-503-2)
  • Also published in: The American Magazine, The American Scholar, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, The Atlantic Monthly, The Commonweal, Forum and Century, Harper's Magazine, The Harvard Monthly, Life, Look, Metropolitan, The New Republic, The Saturday Evening Post, Social Forces, Vanity Fair, Vital Speeches of the Day, Woman's Home Companion, and The Yale Review.

Edited collections and biographies:

  • Interpretations 1931-1932 (1932)
  • Interpretations 1933-1935 (1936)
  • Conversations With Walter Lippman (1960)
  • Public Persons (1976) Gilbert Harrison ed.
  • The Essential Lippmann : A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy (1982) Clinton Rossiter & James Lare eds.
  • Public Philosopher: Selected Letters of Walter Lippmann (1988) John Morton Blum ed.
  • Walter Lippmann-Odyssey of a Liberal (1994)
  • Walter Lippmann and the American Century (1990) by Ronald Steel
  • Force and Ideas: The Early Writings (1970) Arthur Schlesinger ed.

 

Though Public Opinion is the only of Lippmann's works found occasionally in print, certain titles are usually available used through the online booksellers listed below.