ABSTRACT
Walter Lippmann had been working with Harcourt, Brace for some time. In 1920, at about the same time he took on the job with Harcourt, Lippmann began writing a regular column for Vanity Fair, a slick monthly of the arts. Lippmann enjoyed writing for Vanity Fair and stayed with it until 1934. Rather than diluting his style, the magazine brought out a side of his character — irony, a gift for character analysis, intellectual playfulness, and even a romantic idealism — that had been dampened at the ponderous New Republic. Lippmann had taken on the Vanity Fair column not only for the exposure and the pay, but because it offered an escape from the hothouse atmosphere of the New Republic. Eager to get away from the New Republic and to have more time for his own work, Lippmann persuaded Herbert Croly to let him hire as managing editor a talented young man he had found at Vanity Fair.
