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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 320 EAN: 9789562916134 ISBN: 9562916138 Label: bnpublishing.com Manufacturer: bnpublishing.com Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: January 08, 2008 Publisher: bnpublishing.com Release Date: September 30, 2008 Studio: bnpublishing.com Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Unreadable typesettingCheaply produced and bound -- and the typesetting is shockingly poor. There are no indents after paragraph breaks, italics that were in the original are missing in this shoddy edition. I have to purchase yet another copy because this fly-by-night publisher can't be bothered to typeset an out-of-copyright text properly. Rating:  - Walter Lippman's Legacy as I See ItI had the good fortune to meet Walter Lippman growing up, as my father was his children's orthodontist (overbites all). Through this, Lippman and my biological mother, the receptionist, began an affair that lasted--on and off--for several tumultuous years. While Lippman the intellectual is to be respected, I cannot recommend his book without reservation. I mention this on accout of the extent to which his shenanigans with my biological mother resulted in a great deal of cruelty and psychological ... Read More Rating:  - Realistic view of public opinionIn the last few pages, the author starts writing about hope and remedy for the current problem. Until then, this book requires a lot of patience. The analysis of how people understand public affairs is appliacble to the present world (also applicable to Japan where I live). Rating: - www.sportofdistraction.comIn PUBLIC OPINION, we have 1 of the foundational texts in the forming of present day public relations. According to all I've read on Walter Lippmann, he was the most influential pundit of his era, so to read his assessment of the public's opinion & what it's worth & how it must be tamed, we (the readers) are being given access to the core elements that lead to what we know today as government & business propaganda. Lippmann was part of the Creel Committee, whose job it was to sell the ... Read More Rating: - A concise and pragmatic look at politics as a sociological phenomenaLippmann's thorough analysis of public opinion serves as an intriguing contemporary counterpoint to Edward Bernays' "Propaganda" (though both books are in many ways timeless). An interesting read - I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in politics or group psychology. 
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