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Lewis H. Lapham foi editor do periódico estadunidense Harper's Magazine até 2006. Mais recentemente, Lapham fundou uma publicação trimestral sobre história, intitulada Lapham's Quarterly. Ele também escreveu vários livros sobre política e assuntos atuais. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Janeiro 1935
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Lewis H. Lapham: Frases em inglês

“Once having proclaimed our loyalty to the abstract idea that all men are created equal, we do everything in our power to prove ourselves unequal. Among the world's peoples, none other belongs to so many clubs, associations, committees and secret societies.”

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Fonte: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 6, The Precarious Eden, p. 142

“I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.”

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Fonte: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 2, Protocols of Wealth, p. 56

“Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.”

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Fonte: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 3, The Golden Horde, p. 58

“We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.”

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In The Garden Of Tabloid Delight, p. 197
Waiting For The Barbarians (1997)