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30 Satiresby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 1565849868 (1-56584-986-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '30 Satires'Book summary:A leading political satirist skewers the pretensions and vanities of America's equestrian classes.
Widely celebrated for his political essays, Lewis Lapham is a satirist who belongs in the company of Ambrose Bierce, H.L. Mencken, and Mark Twain. Over the last twenty years he has experimented with satire in its several formsas burlesque, pasquinade, invective, and deadpan jest.
This first assemblage of Lapham's satires presents thirty pieces that hold their currency and humor against the tide of social and political change that has engulfed American society in recent times. He reduces to absurdity many of the topics of the day that are often treated portentiously: Dickens's A Christmas Carol is retold to praise the virtues of remorseless greed; the hydrogen bomb is introduced as a solemn dinner guest who doesn't play tennis or speak English; gene banks take the form of well-trained pigs that accompany their wealthy owners in the first-class cabins of transatlantic jets. [via]
The Agony of Mammon : The Imperial Global Economy Explains Itself to the Membership in Davos, Switzerlandby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 1859847102 (1-85984-710-2)
Hardcover, Verso Books
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End of the Worldby Lewis H. Lapham , Simon SchamaISBN 0312252641 (0-312-25264-1)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Fortune's Childby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 0385148879 (0-385-14887-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Gag Rule: On The Suppression of Dissent and The Stifling of Democracyby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 1594200173 (1-59420-017-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy'Book summary:Award-winning columnist Lewis Lapham issues an urgent new polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissentthe lifeblood of democracyat the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to the wealthy few. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation, so marginalized and muted by a government that recklessly disregards civil liberties. In the midst of the "war on terror," we face a crisis of democracy as serious as any in our history. Gag Rule is a rousing and necessary call to action in defense of the right to raise our voices and have those voices heard. [via]
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The Harper's Index Bookby Michael Pollan, Lewis H. Lapham , Eric EtheridgeISBN 0805003258 (0-8050-0325-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Harper's Index Book'Book summary: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. [via]
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High Technology & Human Freedomby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 0874745993 (0-87474-599-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-De-Siecleby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 1859840620 (1-85984-062-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Imperial Masqueradeby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 0517110180 (0-517-11018-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Lapham's Rules of Influence: A Carrerist's Guide to Success, Status, and Self-Congratulationby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 0679426051 (0-679-42605-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lapham's Rules of Influence: A Carrerist's Guide to Success, Status, and Self-Congratulation'Book summary:Want to get ahead in the world? To be a player, rather than a ticket holder? A mover and a shaker, rather than the moved or shaken? Lewis Lapham has a formula: Suck up, then suck up some more, and when you're finished with that, try to arrange a dinner with more people you can suck up to. Lapham, the iconoclastic editor of Harper's Magazine, argues that brownnosing has a long tradition in America, and quotes no less a source than Alexis de Tocqueville, who in 1831 was shocked to find that the "courtier spirit" was alive and well in the rough-and-tumble American democracy.
The advice you'll find in Rules of Influence drips with acid, which you'd expect if you read any of Lapham's columns in Harper's, for which he won a National Magazine Award in 1995. But even in the sarcasm, one can find surprisingly practical advice. For example, he notes that "[t]oo much curiosity is a mark of inferior rank. You will be mistaken for a tourist or a waiter" if you ask too many questions. He also notes that the limelight is "[n]ot a safe place.... Too steep an ascent into the atmospheres of fame invites a correspondingly steep descent into the base camp of anonymity." If only Elizabeth Berkley could have read this book before she did Showgirls! --Lou Schuler [via]
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Lights, Camera, Democracy!: Selected Essaysby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 0812991621 (0-8129-9162-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Money and Class in Americaby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 0330306235 (0-330-30623-5)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on Our Civil Religionby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 1555841090 (1-55584-109-0)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administrationby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 159558112X (1-59558-112-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Theater of Warby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 1565848470 (1-56584-847-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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What Counts: The Complete Harpers Indexby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 0805012796 (0-8050-1279-6)
Hardcover, Holt
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What's Going on Here: The Harper's Magazine Book of Annotationsby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 0385304005 (0-385-30400-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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William Howard Taftby John M. Blum, Lewis H. LaphamISBN 0805069542 (0-8050-6954-2)
Hardcover, Times Books
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The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bayby Lewis H. LaphamISBN 0802114466 (0-8021-1446-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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