Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Senior continues "By this logic though I could have chosen not to read Pretensions to Empire before reviewing it since I already knew Lapham’s sensibility just as he claims to know the Republicans’. Lapham and Jane Foster Lapham was born and grew up in San Francisco. Reeves a stockbroker and grocery heir and Elizabeth M.

He was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981 and from 1983 until 2006. : /ˈluːɪs ˈlæpəm/; born January 8 1935) is an American writer. Lewis H.