ABSTRACT
Walter Lippmann was brought up to be a gentleman. His wealthy parents sent him to the finest schools and, from the time he was six, took him to Europe on annual cultural excursions. He knew his way around Paris and London, Carlsbad and St. Moritz, St. Petersburg and Berlin long before he ever saw Philadelphia or Coney Island. Lippmann never lost his admiration for men of daring and determination. He liked them to be strong, but they also had to have a redeeming vision and a sense of democratic values. Walter was neither particularly unhappy nor rebellious, although sometimes a bit lonely as an only child. Walter grew up in a gilded Jewish ghetto. Virtually everyone he knew was wealthy, Jewish and of German background. Walter was not nearly so naive as his cherubic face seemed to indicate. He had no intention of being confined to a gilded ghetto, to its materialism, its political conservatism, narrowness, and its exclusive Jewishness.
