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30 SatiresISBN 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]
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Gag Rule: On The Suppression of Dissent and The Stifling of Democracyby Lewis 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 Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real-life Stories of Addiction and Recoveryby Lewis LaphamISBN 1592854761 (1-59285-476-1)
Softcover, Hci
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The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Stories Of Addiction And Recoveryby Lewis LaphamISBN 1592851568 (1-59285-156-8)
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Imperial Masqueradeby Lewis LaphamISBN 1555844499 (1-55584-449-9)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Lapham's Rules of Influence: A Careerist's Guide to Success, Status, and Self-Congratulationby Lewis LaphamISBN 0812992342 (0-8129-9234-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lapham's Rules of Influence: A Careerist'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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Hardcover, Random House Inc - Lapham's Rules of Influence: A Careerist's Guide to Success, Status, and Self-Congratulation: ISBN 0812992342 (0-8129-9234-2)
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- Lapham's Rules of Influence: A Carrerist's Guide to Success, Status, and Self-Congratulation: ISBN 0679426051 (0-679-42605-1)
Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administrationby Lewis LaphamISBN 1595582290 (1-59558-229-0)
Softcover, New Pr
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Theater of Warby Lewis LaphamISBN 1565848470 (1-56584-847-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theater of War'Book summary:A critical look at America's new war by the author Annie Dillard calls "one of our most brilliant writers and thinkers."
Nothing will be the same after September 11. This is the wisdom offered and widely received since the announcement of the war on terrorism, a permanent war declared on both an unknown enemy and an abstract noun. But in Theater of War, Lewis Lapham shows with customary intelligence and wit that the recent imperial behavior of the United States government is perfectly consistent with the practice of past administrations.
Finding skeptics in the battle against evil has been a rare achievement. For example, as Lapham points out: "Ted Koppel struck the preferred note of caution on November 2 when introducing the Nightline audience to critics of the American bombing of Afghanistan: 'Some of you, many of you, are not going to like what you hear tonight. You don't have to listen.'" Unpopular opinions seldom make an appearance on the network news, and during the months since the destruction of the World Trade Center, the voices of dissent have been few and far between. Lewis Lapham is an exception. Almost alone among mainstream political commentators, he has had the courage to question the motive and feasibility, as well as the imperial pretension, of the Bush administration's infinite crusade against the world's evildoers. [via]
Waiting for the Barbariansby Lewis LaphamISBN 1859848826 (1-85984-882-6)
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With the Beatlesby Lewis LaphamISBN 0976658321 (0-9766583-2-1)
Softcover, Melville Pub House
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