Lapham’s Quarterly Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America
Mary KuhnLapham’s QuarterlyAn excerpt from “The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America” by Mary Kuhn. @NYUpress https://t.co/jzmnDvtRKu
Paperback, 2023
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Dictionary Of The English Language
Samuel JohnsonLapham’s Quarterlyobedience: “Obsequiousness; submission to authority; compliance with command or prohibition.”—Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 https://t.co/P9z3PpeJ7V
Paperback, 2022
$33.95$16.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Daniel T. FlemingLapham’s QuarterlyAn excerpt from @danieltf111’s “Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.” @UNC_Press https://t.co/HBUCt8CBma
Hardcover, 2022
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing
Benjamin Todd JealousLapham’s QuarterlyThis week on the podcast, Lewis H. Lapham speaks with @BenJealous, author of “Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing.” @AmistadBooks @HarperCollins https://t.co/wYUB7M6wHE
Hardcover, 2023
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Burger's Daughter
Nadine GordimerLapham’s QuarterlyWhen Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Nadine Gordimer was among the first people he asked to see; he had read her novel Burger’s Daughter while in jail. “[I]t was not about my book...but about his discovering, on the first day of freedom, that Winnie Mandela had a lover.” https://t.co/NnaZ8p2I4n
Paperback, 1980
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures
Maria GoliaLapham’s QuarterlyAn excerpt from Maria Golia’s “A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt’s Treasures.” @reaktionbooks @ChicagoDistrib https://t.co/u6JxUF4kxY
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crome Yellow
Aldous HuxleyLapham’s QuarterlyAldous Huxley insisted that “Crome Yellow” was fiction. Ottoline Morrell disagreed. @emmagarman on the novel that F. Scott Fitzgerald loved, even as one of Huxley’s friends called it “simply photography, and poor ragged photography at that.” https://t.co/Vy6cZp1rZo
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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
Matthew GreenLapham’s QuarterlyRead an excerpt from @drmatthewgreen’s “Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages.” @wwnorton https://t.co/dRcVJhOsPd
Paperback, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Master and Commander
Patrick O'BrianLapham’s Quarterly“Patrick O’Brian is magnificently observant. His books are just a pleasure.” Listen to Lewis Lapham discuss “Master and Commander.” https://t.co/98wupMVZr9
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly
Harriet StoweLapham’s QuarterlyTraveling to Europe at the age of 41, in part to escape the uproar caused by Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, born #OTD, kept a detailed journal that included travel etiquette for Americans, urging them not to graffiti Shakespeare’s home. https://t.co/LDzdFCZLlP
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