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 The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. 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 Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. More
