Lewis Lapham and Dick Cavett talk about Cavett’s life and television career, the lessons in humor they learned from Mark Twain and Groucho Marx, and that time they both tried out for a musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby while attending Yale in the 1950s. Listen to find out who got the part.
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783. More
Lewis Lapham talks with historian Amanda Foreman about Britain’s role in the American Civil War. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Roland Philipps, author of A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Victor Sebestyen, author of Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. More
