For over 150 years, "Harper's" Magazine has explored the American experience with a fiercely independent spirit and spectacular writing. That experience is available in this magnificent illustrated volume, spanning the decades and encompassing writing from Melville and Twain to Normal Mailer, David Mamet, and Annie Dillard. This beautiful volume ...
In this wildly perceptive book about wealth and success, a fully accredited member of America's elite breaks rank and reveals the unspoken secrets of getting ahead.
The idea that money can buy the future, virtue, happiness and fulfillment is now so embedded in the American consciousness that it has transformed all classes of society. In a spirited and wholly original work, Lapham analyzes the effects of the money dream on American class structures, culture, celebrity, crime and politics.
This is a collection of illuminating information from "Harper's" Magazine that makes a snapshot of our world today. Arguably the most imitated editorial feature in magazine journalism, "The Harper's Index" each month sparks conversation, debate, outrage, wonder, and laughter.
Winner of the 1995 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism, this work observes the spectacle of democratic life and values in our time, and asks who is signing in and who is checking out, of the American experiment at the "fin de siecle". Culled from Lewis Lapham's monthly "Notebook" column for "Harper's Magazine", these essays describe ...
To people who have grown tired of self-government, the belief in kings and queens and fairy tales seems easier and more comfortable than the practice of politics. Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's Magazine, author of Money and Class, and host of PBS's Bookmark, describes the passing of the democratic spirit in America.
The editor of Harper's offers readers a unique collection of some of the unexpected and fascinating statistics that have made the Harper's Index one of the most quoted--and most imitated--features in magazines today.
A collection of first-person accounts, from the Greeks through the 20th century, that describe historical events which were interpreted by people as signalling the end of the world.
Earlier this year some 2,000 of the world's most prominent business and political leaders -- among them Bill Gates and the President of Brazil, also George Soros and the Chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank -- made their way to Davos, Switzerland, for the 27th annual meeting of The World Economic Forum. They brought with them a wealth of ...
First published in "Harper's Monthly Magazine" in 1906, Henry James describes turn-of-the-century New York in vivid detail. Although written in 1904-1905, when James returned to the US after living abroad for more than 20 years, the essay is as pertinent today as it was 100 years ago. The text appears as it was originally published and is enhanced ...
The editor of Harper's Magazine and host of "Bookmark", the weekly PBS television show about books, Lewis H. Lapham has firmly established himself as one of our nation's leading social and literary critics. His latest collection of esssay vividly illuminates the political and cultural spectacle of the 1980s.
This collection of nineteen pieces by Lewis H Lapham scrutinise America's national pathology of greed and self-aggrandisement. In this work, Lapham concludes that America has engaged in a dissolute foreign policy, suffered a general loss of courage, humour and clear mindedness and made a steady retreat from the idea of democracy.
A collection of first-person accounts, from the Greeks through the 20th century, that describe historical events which were interpreted by people as signalling the end of the world.
Such distinguished scholars as Henry Steele Commager, Germain Bree, and Richard M. Restak consider the impact on human liberty of such technological developments as artificial intelligence, robotics, data bases, and electronic communications.
From bestseller lists to Carnegie Hall tickets, lurid newspaper headlines to death certificates, senate reelection costs to restaurant menus, this lively, provocative collection of annotations will open your eyes to what's really going on here.
Such distinguished scholars as Henry Steele Commager, Germain Bree, and Richard M. Restak consider the impact on human liberty of such technological developments as artificial intelligence, robotics, data bases, and electronic communications.
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