America's leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror
Lewis H. Lapham is the founding Editor of Lapham's Quarterly and the Editor Emeritus of Harper's. His columns received the National Magazine Award in 1995 for exhibiting "an exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity," and, in 2002, the Thomas Paine Journalism Award. He was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame in 2007. His other books include Money and Class in America, Fortune's Child, Imperial Masquerade, The Wish for Kings, Hotel America,Waiting for the Barbarians, Theater of War, The Agony of Mammon, Gag Rule, andPretensions to Empire.
Without doubt our greatest satirist-elegant, honorable, learned and
fair. I love reading him.
*Kurt Vonnegut*
Lewis Lapham-born of Mark Twain and H. L. Mencken-is the most
provocative and engaging essayist in the country.
*George Plimpton*
One of the last liberal thinkers, a man of elegant humor. Should he
wander onto the premises of Fox TV, he'd surely be shot down like a
dog.
*Liz Smith*
Lapham's indignation is ecumenical, his scorn spread as smoothly as
butter from left to right and north to south across the face of
contemporary America.
*Boston Globe*
Lapham is a wonderful writer, a connoisseur of the perfect
word.
*Business Week*
The combination of Lapham's urbane prose and lethal wit . makes for
delightful reading.
*Forbes*
To read Lapham's work, so erudite and conscientious, is to realize
that saving our democracy will take bold-face truth-telling,
bravery and a populace willing to change: An alchemical
improbability. However, if you can read this book and not want to
commit to the work necessary to save our democracy, you are already
lost.
*Literary Hub*
[Illustrates] how and why our democracy has given way to a
dysfunctional plutocracy of the super-rich, by the super-rich, and
for the super-rich. Taken together, the book's essays, published
between 1990 and 2016 in Lapham's Quarterly and Harper's, serve as
a powerful and alarming American history . With Age of Folly,
Lapham provides the historical context needed to understand our
current political moment.
*The Millions*
Although frequently dark, The Age of Folly comes with much humor
and elegant writing...Lapham's sharp prose pricks the
self-importance of the powerful, who too often parade with claim to
omniscience and omnipotency...Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*
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