Most would call the building of the transcontinental railroads a triumph of capitalism and its genius tycoons, but a comedy of errors played by avaricious fools is closer to the truth. Lewis Lapham talks with historian Richard White about the failures of the companies behind a major alteration of the American West.
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Stephen Greenblatt, author of Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The People, No. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Adrian Goldsworthy, author of Pax Romana: War, Peace, and Conquest in the Roman World. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis. More
