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 speaks with the author of Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. More
Lewis Lapham talks with historian Amanda Foreman about Britain’s role in the American Civil War. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783. More
