LEWIS H. LAPHAM is the founding Editor of Lapham's Quarterly and the editor emeritus of Harper's. His columns received the National Magazine Award in 1995 for exhibiting "an exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity," and, in 2002, the Thomas Paine Journalism Award. He was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame in 2007. His other books include Fortune's Child, Imperial Masquerade, The Wish for Kings, Hotel America, Waiting for the Barbarians, Theater of War The Agony of Mammon, Gag Rule, Pretensions to Empire, and The Age of Folly.

PREAMBLE 2
1. THE GILDED CAGE 10

2. PROTOCOLS OF WEALTH 38

3. THE GOLDEN HORDE 66
4. THE ROMANCE OF CRIME 98

5. SOCIAL HYGIENE 130
6. THE PRECARIOUS EDEN 166

7. DESCENT INTO THE MIRROR 200

8. HOLY DREAD 236

9. COINED SOULS 260

10. ENVOI 282