Democracy and Its Discontents: Walter Lippmann and the Crisis of Politics (1919-1938)

The interwar period was a moment of deep crisis everywhere. The already strong shock of World War I, a conflict that involved different continents with political and economic consequences, was soon followed by the 1929 crisis and by the growth of totalitarianisms. The United States of America, which had previously abandoned the principle of isolationism to join the war, quickly returned to it, rejecting Wilsonian idealism. The defeat of Wilsonianism granted the Republican party more than ten ...