Talking to author John Glassie about his book A Man of Misconceptions, which chronicles the odd pursuits of 17th-century scientist and nutball Athanasius Kircher, the misguided decoder of hieroglyphs and the failed inventor of such devices as the sunflower clock.
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. More
Lewis Lapham talks with author Brook Wilensky-Lanford about the search for Adam and Eve’s hometown. More
Lewis Lapham talks with historian Miles Unger about the Florentine father of modern political science. More
Lewis Lapham talks with historian Amanda Foreman about Britain’s role in the American Civil War. More
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