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Author: Lewis Lapham
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Mar 2003
 | Theater of War
by Lewis Lapham
The New Press/University of Toronto Press
202 pages $22.95 cloth
ISBN: 1565847725
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A Privileged Vantage Point
by Brian Fawcett
Theater of War is a collection of essays written for Harper's Magazine by its editor Lewis Lapham from the end of the Clinton presidency into the early aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Across the essays, Lapham argues that the period reflects an accelerating slide in American political attitudes and government policies from self-interested but functional plutocracy toward theocracy and empire. Read more...
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