Essays in the Public Philosophy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Essays in the Public Philosophy But at this time the American people were as unpre pared in their minds as in their military establishment. Could the democracies be rallied, could they be collected and nerved for the ordeal so that they would be equal to this mortal challenge? They had the superior assets. They had the numbers, the resources, the influence. But did they have the insight, the discipline to persevere, and the resolution to go through with it? Though they had the means, did they also have the will, and did they still know how? A second world war was making up out of the ruins and the failures of the first, and there was nothing to show that the Western democratic governments were in control of their affairs and capable of making the nec essary decisions. They were reacting to events and they were not governing them. Could they avoid defeat and conquest without an exhaustion which would rend the fabric of Western society, without enormities of suffering which would alienate themasses of the people, and with out resorting to measures of violence which might be come inexpiable? They were so very late, and they were becoming engaged in they knew not what. They had re fused to take in what they saw, they had refused to be lieve what they heard, they had wished and they had waited, hoping against hope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Politics & Social Sciences

Walter, Lippmann

Politics & Government

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Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current UnrestAmericans can carry through their purposes when they have them. If the standpatter is still powerful amongst us it is because we have not learned to use our power, and di rect it to fruitful ends. The American conservative, it seems to me, fills the vacuum where democratic purpose should be.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Motivational

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Public Opinion

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Franklin Classics Trade Press

Liberty and the News

History

World

The stakes of diplomacy

The Stakes of Diplomacy

<p>Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Volume 5: Community Responsibility, 1969 Hardcover Printing. 312 Pages. Limited Collector's Edition. Rare Book.</p>

Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Volume 5: Community Responsibility

Literature & Fiction

MORTIMER J. ADLER

JOHN DRYDEN

Woodrow, Wilson

Henry, David Thoreau

Stephen, Crane

James Oppenheim

Irwin Edman

Jean E. Mizer

Samuel H. Scudder

United States

Deseret Books

Early Writings

Liveright

<p>After an eloquent and moving analysis of what he sees as the disillusion of themodern age, Lippmann posits as the central dilemma of liberalism its inability to find an appropriate substitute for the older forms of authority - church, state, class, family, law, custom - that it has denied. Lippmann attempts to find a way out of this chaos through the acceptance of a higher humanism and a way of life inspired by the ideal of "disinterestedness" in all things.In his new introduction to the Transaction edition, John Patrick Diggins marks A Preface to Morals, originally published in 1929, as a critical turning point in Lippmann's intellectual career. He also provides an excellent discussion of the enduring value of this major twentieth-century work by situating it within the context of other intellectual movements.</p>

A Preface to Morals

Philosophy

Routledge

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Transaction Publishing

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