Praise for Money and Class in America
Money and Class is, on every page, a pleasure to read. Lapham’s … sentences simply radiate elegance.- Thomas Frank, author, What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Praise for Lewis Lapham:
"Without doubt our greatest satirist—elegant, honorable, learned and fair. I love reading him." —Kurt Vonnegut
"Lewis Lapham—born of Mark Twain and H. L. Mencken—is the most provocative and engaging essayist in the country." —George Plimpton
"An elegant collection of sardonic and satirical essays . . . Lapham is a moralist in the tradition of Gore Vidal." —Godfrey Hodgson, Independent
"An elegant descant of despair about the state of American culture and political life." — Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph
"In this aptly titled collection of twenty-five exquisite essays, Lewis Lapham depicts an ugly America. These dour yet witty ruminations spare no one and nothing." — Johanna Berkman, New York Times Book Review
"Lapham refuses to cozy down to his audience, much less cozy up to its ignorance and prejudices. Nor will he surrender a jot of his wit, erudition and style." —Los Angeles Times
"Lapham's portraits of his country are astute and his dry wit as sharp as a knife." —Times
"These dour yet witty ruminations spare no one and nothing...." —Johanna Berkman, The New York Times Book Review
"This is a book that must be read. If you can't stomach the philosophy, just lie back and enjoy the prose." — Marina Benjamin, Evening Standard
"We should honour and respect Lapham, and all his works, and buy this book . . . Like Gore Vidal and Christopher Hitchens, in whose ballpark he is worthy to play, the predicament is of the civilised man who has become a relentless chronicler of the awfulness of American politics." — Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
"[Lapham is] a latter-day Mencken or Twain, our last best hope for literary journalism, or any kind of journalism that isn't lazy and shamelessly reverential of money." — John Cook, Washington City Pages
