PUBLIC OPINION [Illustrated]

Public Opinion is a book by Walter Lippmann, published in 1922, that is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially the irrational, and often self-serving, social perceptions that influence individual behavior, and prevent optimal societal cohesion. The descriptions of the cognitive limitations people face in comprehending their socio-political and cultural environments, proposes that people must inevitably apply an evolving catalogue of general stereotypes to a complex reality, rendered Public Opinion a seminal text in the fields of media studies, political science, and social psychology.

Contents:
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

About the author:
Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 – December 14, 1974) was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, and critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his 1922 book Public Opinion. His views regarding the role of journalism in a democracy were contrasted with the contemporaneous writings of John Dewey in what has been retrospectively named the Lippmann-Dewey debate. Lippmann won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his syndicated newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow" and one for his 1961 interview of Nikita Khruschev.

This pre-1923 publication has been converted from its original format for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the conversion.