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 speaks with the author of The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks to Erica Benner, author of Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Dialogue: The Founders and Us. More
