Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States. Lapham, Lewis H, Deaths (Obituaries), Harper’s Magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly, Magazines, Books and Literature, Writing and Writers, United States Politics and Government Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States. NYT > Business