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Drift and Mastery - An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest (Paperback, Centennial Edition)
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Drift and Mastery - An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest (Paperback, Centennial Edition)
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In 1914, a brilliant young political journalist published a book
arguing that the United States had entered a period of "drift"-a
lack of control over rapidly changing forces in society. He
highlighted the tensions between expansion and consolidation,
traditionalism and progressivism, and emotion and rationality. He
wrote to convince readers that they could balance these tensions:
they could be organized, efficient, and functional without
sacrificing impulse, choice, or liberty. Mastery over drift is
attainable, Walter Lippmann argued, through diligent attention to
facts and making active choices. Democracy, Lippman wrote, is "a
use of freedom, an embrace of opportunity." Lippman's Drift and
Mastery became one of the most important and influential documents
of the Progressive Movement. It remains a valuable text for
understanding the political thought of early twentieth-century
America and a lucid exploration of timeless themes in American
government and politics. Distinguished historian Walter
Leuchtenberg's 1986 introduction and notes are retained in this
edition. In a foreword for the 2014 centennial edition, Ganesh
Sitaraman contends, "A century later, Lippmann's classic has much
to say to twenty-first century progressives. The underlying
solution for our time is similar to that of Lippman's. We must
regain mastery over drift by reforming finance and reducing
inequality, by rethinking the relationship between corporations and
workers, and by embracing changes in social life."
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