Reinhold Niebuhr Timeline: Bingham publishes first biography of Niebuhr

Reinhold Niebuhr Timeline: Bingham publishes first biography of Niebuhr

Walter Lippmann Letter to June Bingham

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Click to enlarge image of July 1, 1915 letter from Reinhold Niebuhr to Professor Samuel Press - Page 1

New York Herald Tribune
3525 Woodley Road, NW
Washington 16, D.C.
January 19, 1969

Mrs. Jonathan Bingham
5000 Independence Avenue
Riverdale 71, New York

Dear Mrs. Bingham:
That is a very good letter, but I suppose it was not published, because of the rule not to print letters about articles written by columnists.

I am glad that you are writing about Niebuhr. I rate him in the very highest rank of thinkers produced in this country during this century.

Cordially,
Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann

Reinhold Niebuhr Papers: Library of Congress, Manuscript Reading Room

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