30 Satires Lewis H. Lapham,
Publisher: New Press
ISBN: 1565849868
DDC: 320
Edition: Paperback; 2005-04-15
Summary:
A leading political satirist skewers the pretensions and vanities of
America's equestrian classes. Widely celebrated for his political
essays, Lewis Lapham is a satirist who belongs in the company of
Ambrose Bierce, H.L. Mencken, and Mark Twain. Over the last twenty
years he has experimented with satire in its several forms—as
burlesque, pasquinade, invective, and deadpan jest. This first
assemblage of Lapham's satires presents thirty pieces that hold their
currency and humor against the tide of social and political change
that has engulfed American society in recent times. He reduces to
absurdity many of the topics of the day that are often treated
portentiously: Dickens's A Christmas Carol is retold to praise the
virtues of remorseless greed; the hydrogen bomb is introduced as a
solemn dinner guest who doesn't play tennis or speak English; gene
banks take the form of well-trained pigs that accompany their wealthy
owners in the first-class cabins of transatlantic jets.
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