Age Of Folly: America Abandons Its Democracy

Lewis Lapham is one of the giants of American letters. Formerly the editor of Harper's Magazine and now the editor of Lapham's Quarterly, his essays are renowned for their acerbic wit and pinpoint accuracy. In this latest collection of his essays he reviews the course of American democracy from the beginning of the War on Terror to the present day: from the bombastic spectacle of US elections, bought and paid for in advance, to the surveillance and suppression of dissent in the age of Snowden and the NSA.