Walter Lippmann was an American intellectual

Intellectual

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, writer

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, reporter

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, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War

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. Lippmann was twice awarded (1958 and 1962) a Pulitzer Prize

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 for his syndicated newspaper

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 column, "Today and Tomorrow".
Walter Lippmann was born on 23 September 1889, in New York City, to Jacob and Daisy Baum Lippmann; his upper-middle class German-Jewish family took annual holidays in Europe.