Walter Lippmann

(1889 - 1974)

Entering Harvard University in 1906, the same year as John Reed and T.S. Eliot, Lippmann assisted George Santayana and for a time had weekly talks over tea with William James. He helped found The New Republic in 1914, worked on Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, and went to Versailles in 1919 to take part in the treaty negotiations. Lippmann’s column “Today and Tomorrow,” begun in 1931, was eventually syndicated in some 250 U.S. newspapers.