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 The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy. More
Willard Sterne Randall and Lewis Lapham talk about the life and adventures of Ethan Allen. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. More
