Drift and Mastery

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Drift and Mastery Drift and Mastery An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest Walter Lippmann "Men find themselves working and thinking and feeling 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 The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street Madison, Wisconsin 53711 3 Henrietta Street LOndon WC2E 8LU, England www.wisc.edu\wisconsinpress "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 7 9 10 8 6 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 footnotes , this new edition follows faithfully the original text. I am grateful to Howard Gottlieb, Librarian of the Historical Manuscripts Collection, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, for permitting me to consult the original handwritten draft of Drift and Mastery in the Library's Lippmanniana collection . W.E.L. ...