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Encyclopedia > Lewis Lapham

Lewis H. Lapham (born January 8, 1935) is the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine. He also written many books on politics and current affairs.


Lapham was born and grew up in San Francisco. His grandfather, Roger Lapham, was mayor of San Francisco, and his great grandfather was a founder of Texaco.


Lapham was educated at the Hotchkiss School, Yale and Cambridge


In 1971, Lapham became editor of Harper's, after having worked for the San Francisco Examiner and New York Herald Tribune.


Lapham's son, Andrew Lapham, married Caroline Mulroney, the daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, in September 2000.


Books by Lewis H. Lapham

  • Fortune's Child
  • Money and Class in America
  • Imperial Masquerade
  • The Wish for Kings
  • Hotel America
  • Waiting for the Barbarians
  • Theater of War (2003)

His writing has appeared in Life, Commentary, Vanity Fair, National Review, Yale Literary Magazine, ELLE, Fortune, Forbes, American Spectator, The New York Times, Maclean's, The Observer (London), and The Wall Street Journal.


Lapham is the host and author of the PBS series, America's Century, and he was host of the weekly PBS series, Bookmark.


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Lewis H. Lapham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (214 words)
Lewis Henry Lapham (born January 8, 1935) is the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine.
Lapham's son, Andrew Lapham, married Caroline Mulroney, the daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, in September 2000.
Lapham is the host and author of the PBS series, America's Century, and he was host of the weekly PBS series, Bookmark.
MediaChannel.org - INTERVIEWS | Lewis Lapham (3316 words)
Lewis Lapham on civic discourse, intellectual life and cultural asphyxiation in a TV nation.
Lewis Lapham is well known as editor of Harper's Magazine and author of "Notebook," a monthly essay in Harper's which won the National Magazine Award in 1995 for an "exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity." A collection of essays, Fortune's Child, earned him comparison to H.L. Mencken and Montaigne.
Lapham was also the host and executive editor of "Bookmark," a television series seen on 150 stations between 1989-1991.
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