Fortune's child

By Lewis H. Lapham

Book Overview

This collection of nineteen pieces by Lewis H. Lapham scrutinize our national pathology of greed and self-aggrandizement. Lapham concludes we have engaged in a dissolute foreign policy, suffered a general loss of coourage, humor and clearmindedness and made a steady retreat from the idea of democracy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385148879
• ISBN13: 9780385148870
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"