Lapham's Rules of Influence : A Careerist's Guide to Success, Status, and Self-Congratulation

by Lapham, Lewis H.

• ISBN13: 9780679426059
• ISBN10: 0679426051
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

In this wildly perceptive book about wealth and success, a fully accredited member of America's elite breaks rank and reveals the unspoken secrets of getting ahead.

Author Biography

<b>Lewis Lapham</b> was born in 1935 in San Francisco and educated at the Hotchkiss School, Yale University, and Cambridge University. He is the author of several books of essays, including <i>The Wish for Kings, Money and Class in America, Fortune's Child, Imperial Masquerade, Hotel America</i>, and <i>Waiting for the Barbarians</i>. He has been a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and for the <i>New York Herald Tribune</i>, a syndicated newspaper columnist, and, since 1983, editor of <i>Harper's Magazine</i>, where his monthly essays won a 1995 National Magazine Award for their "exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity." Between 1989 and 1991, he was the host and executive editor of Bookmark, a weekly national public-television series. He was also the host and author of a