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 talks with Gordon S. Wood, author of Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of War and Peace: FDR’s Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945. More
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 The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783. More
