
2012
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4.08
Average Rating
224
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From King Lear to Jane Austen, Euripides to Sigmund Freud, history's greatest families prove that they are not always alike. Among the contributors: Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Philip Larkin, Amy Chua, Leo Tolstoy, Julias Caesar, Moses Maimonides, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jamaica Kincaid, Hesiod, William Styron, Anne Fadiman, Garret Keizer
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Lewis H. Lapham
Author · 34 books
Lewis Henry Lapham was the editor of Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and again from 1983 until 2006. He is the founder and current editor of Lapham's Quarterly, featuring a wide range of famous authors devoted to a single topic in each issue. Lapham has also written numerous books on politics and current affairs. Lapham's Quarterly http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/