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Lewis H. Lapham

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January 08, 1935 in San Francisco, California, The United States

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Lewis H. Lapham was the editor of Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and again from 1983 until 2006. He is the founder and current editor of Lapham's Quarterly, featuring a wide range of famous authors devoted to a single topic in each issue. Lapham has also written numerous books on politics and current affairs.

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Average rating: 3.96 · 1,241 ratings · 152 reviews · 51 distinct works

	Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy 3.72 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Theater of War, Updated Paperback Edition 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Money and Class In America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Lapham's Quarterly: Eros 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Waiting for the Barbarians 3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	30 Satires 3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Lapham's Quarterly: Ways of Learning 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Lapham's Quarterly: Crime & Punishment 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Lapham's Quarterly: Travel 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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“As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.”
― Lewis H. Lapham, Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy

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“Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralising as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god . . . It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.”
― Lewis H. Lapham

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“From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words."
- from Harper's Notebook, November 2010”
― Lewis H. Lapham

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