{"product_id":"u-s-foreign-policy-shield-of-the-republic-walter-lippmann-presentation-copy-to-air-chief-marshal-lord-portal","title":"U. S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic - Walter Lippmann - Presentation Copy to Air Chief Marshal Lord Portal","description":"\u003cp\u003eLIPPMANN, Walter. U. S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic. Boston: Little, Brown and Company \/ Atlantic Monthly Press, 1943.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, published June 1943. Inscribed by Walter Lippmann on the front free endpaper: “Sir Charles Portal with best regards Walter Lippmann, Washington, May 18, 1943.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA remarkable wartime association copy, presented by one of the defining American public intellectuals of the twentieth century to one of Britain’s most important wartime commanders. Lippmann was not merely a journalist, but a political thinker of international consequence: a founding editor of The New Republic, the long-serving author of the syndicated column “Today and Tomorrow,” a confidant of presidents, and one of the writers whose ideas helped shape the language of modern political debate. His work on public opinion, democracy, policy, and international order gave him unusual influence in American political life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe recipient, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, later Lord Portal of Hungerford, was Chief of the Air Staff and one of Churchill’s principal military advisers. He stood at the centre of Allied air strategy, the bomber offensive, RAF expansion, and the developing Anglo-American military partnership. In May 1943, when this copy was inscribed in Washington, questions of American power, post-war settlement, Atlantic security, and the direction of Allied strategy were immediate matters of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe association is therefore unusually strong. U. S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic was Lippmann’s argument for a realistic American foreign policy suited to a new global role. Portal was one of the men helping to determine how that power would be applied in practice. This copy links the intellectual framing of American policy with the operational command of the Allied air war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal blue cloth with gilt spine titles. Very good condition, binding firm, cloth clean with light rubbing to extremities and slight wear at spine ends. Contents clean and lightly toned, with the inscription clear and well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walter Lippmann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53073293869323,"sku":null,"price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/7848\/9355\/files\/20260512_072054701_iOS_f89f1339-dee8-4549-abfd-690e39ac2cdf.jpg?v=1778576856","url":"https:\/\/www.archbooks.co.uk\/products\/u-s-foreign-policy-shield-of-the-republic-walter-lippmann-presentation-copy-to-air-chief-marshal-lord-portal","provider":"Arch Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}