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 Lapham talks with author Adam Hochschild about the struggles of the antiwar movement in World War I–era Britain. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World. 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 The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History. More
