Annal:1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1980. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
- History books
- History authors
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors.
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- Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- 1981–>
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
- 1982 NBA–Biography winner
- 1980 LATimes–History winner
- Score: 20.32
The journalist Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was a magisterial figure who relished his role as an insider, an adviser to presidents, a shaper and sometime purveyor of government policy. Drawing on conversations with Lippmann and exclusive access to his private papers, Ronald Steel documents the broad flow of Lippmann’s career from his brilliant Harvard days and his role in helping formulate Wilson’s Fourteen Points in World War I to his bitter break with Lyndon Johnson over Vietnam. Written with clarity and objectivity, this definitive biography presents a commanding portrait of a complicated man and “guides its reader through the first three-quarters of this American century” (The New Yorker).
