Journalist and commentator Walter Lippmann was considered a renaissance man of the American press. His writings included economics, philosophy, and politics, and he was a syndicated columnist, newspaper editor, and author. As a political commentator, Lippmann took stands varying from liberalism to conservatism. His book, The Public Philosophy, 1953, was a document of the "new conservatism." Lippmann strongly backed John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, until becoming disillusioned with the Vietnam War. He won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1962.