Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin speaks with Lewis Lapham about her latest book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, charting the early twentieth-century rise of the progressive press, spearheaded by McClure’s Magazine, and its interplay with the political fortunes of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
Lewis H. Lapham talks with David Wootton, author of Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Steven Ujifusa, author of Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with David Cannadine, author of Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Sarah Churchwell, author of Behold, America: The Entangled History of “America First” and “the American Dream”. More
Lewis Lapham talks with historian Amanda Foreman about Britain’s role in the American Civil War. More
Lewis Lapham talks with Stephen Greenblatt, 2011 winner of the National Book Award in nonfiction. More
