Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin speaks with Lewis Lapham about her latest book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, charting the early twentieth-century rise of the progressive press, spearheaded by McClure’s Magazine, and its interplay with the political fortunes of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Eric Foner, author of Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History. More
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 Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. 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
