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Lapham's Rules of InfluenceA Carrerist's Guide to Success, Status, and Self-Congratulation
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Lapham is editor of Harper's magazine. Besides the witty, incisive pieces that he regularly contributes there, he has produced nearly a book a year over the past decade. Consistently lampooning privilege and all its trappings, he zeroes in on the cultural elite, the press, the publishing industry, educational institutions, and politicians of every stripe. He rearms himself here and takes aim again. This latest offering is a Swiftian self-help manual written for careerists, whom Lapham suggests are adept in the arts of deference and carry on the 'courtier spirit' that Tocqueville found flourishing when he traveled America. After a long introductory essay, Lapham offers aphoristic observations on subjects such as resumes ('the most important of literary forms'), cliches ('make unsparing use of them'), grant proposals ('remember to employ the word 'enhance''), and tact ('the deft careerist tends to swallow insults as if they were oysters served on silver trays'). Every page of Lapham's compact, acerbic guide contains a delight! - David Rouse; 224p-
Genre: Rich people, United States
Format: Hardback
Published: 1999
Pages: 131
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9780679426059
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