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Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974

"Public Opinion"


And if they were able to talk with one another, would they not
suppose that they were naming what was actually before them?"_
--The Republic of Plato, Book Seven. (Jowett Translation.)

CONTENTS
PART I. INTRODUCTION
I. The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads
PART II. APPROACHES TO THE WORLD OUTSIDE
II. Censorship and Privacy
III. Contact and Opportunity
IV. Time and Attention
V. Speed, Words, and Clearness
PART III. STEREOTYPES
VI. Stereotypes
VII. Stereotypes as Defense
VIII. Blind Spots and Their Value
IX. Codes and Their Enemies
X. The Detection of Stereotypes
PART IV. INTERESTS
XI. The Enlisting of Interest
XII. Self-Interest Reconsidered
PART V. THE MAKING OF A COMMON WILL
XIII. The Transfer of Interest
XIV. Yes or No
XV. Leaders and the Rank and File
PART VI. THE IMAGE OF DEMOCRACY
XVI. The Self-Centered Man
XVII. The Self-Contained Community
XVIII. The Role of Force, Patronage, and Privilege
XIX. The Old Image in a New Form: Guild Socialism
XX. A New Image
PART VII. NEWSPAPERS
XXI. The Buying Public
XXII. The Constant Reader
XXIII. The Nature of News
XXIV. News, Truth, and a Conclusion
PART VIII. ORGANIZED INTELLIGENCE
XXV. The Entering Wedge
XXVI. Intelligence Work
XXVII. The Appeal to the Public
XXVIII. The Appeal to Reason


PART I
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
THE WORLD OUTSIDE AND THE PICTURES
IN OUR HEADS


CHAPTER I.


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