"Without doubt our greatest satirist--elegant, honorable, learned and fair. I love reading him." --Kurt Vonnegut "Lewis Lapham--born of Mark Twain and H. L. Mencken--is the most provocative and engaging essayist in the country." --George Plimpton "One of the last liberal thinkers, a man of elegant humor. Should he wander onto the premises of Fox TV, he'd surely be shot down like a dog." --Liz Smith "Lapham's indignation is ecumenical, his scorn spread as smoothly as butter from left to right and north to south across the face of contemporary America.

" -- Boston Globe "Lapham is a wonderful writer, a connoisseur of the perfect word." -- Business Week "The combination of Lapham's urbane prose and lethal wit . makes for delightful reading." -- Forbes "To read Lapham's work, so erudite and conscientious, is to realize that saving our democracy will take bold-face truth-telling, bravery and a populace willing to change: An alchemical improbability. However, if you can read this book and not want to commit to the work necessary to save our democracy, you are already lost." -- Literary Hub "Although frequently dark, The Age of Folly comes with much humor and elegant writing . Lapham's sharp prose pricks the self-importance of the powerful, who too often parade with claim to omniscience and omnipotency . Highly recommended.

" -- Choice "[Illustrates] how and why our democracy has given way to a dysfunctional plutocracy of the super-rich, by the super-rich, and for the super-rich. Taken together, the book's essays, published between 1990 and 2016 in Lapham's Quarterly and Harper's , serve as a powerful and alarming American history . With Age of Folly , Lapham provides the historical context needed to understand our current political moment." --Adam Boretz,  The Millions.