Lewis Lapham ‘56—and I’m including his Yale College year because that mattered, not to Lewis (he was not a snob) but to show you where the man and his mind came from—died yesterday in, but of course, Rome. The legendary writer and editor, whom most Americans don’t know from his three-decade stint running Harper’s Magazine, was 89.
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