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Fortune's Child: A Portrait Of The United States As Spendthrift Heir
Fortune's Child A Portrait Of The United States As Spendthrift Heir Author:Lewis H. Lapham This is a collection of 31 pieces by Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Harper's magazine and one of the wittiest and most astute analysts of post-WW II America. These essays scrutinize our national pathology of greed and self-aggrandizement. Lapham concludes we have engaged in a dissolute foreign policy, suffered a general loss of courage, humor and cl... more »earmindedness and made a steady retreat from the idea of democracy.« less