A Need to Know Goodall, H. L.
2006, 20160616, 2016-06-16
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In scenes eerily parallel to the culture of fear inspired by our current War on Terror, A Need to Know explores the clandestine history of a CIA family defined, and ultimately destroyed, by their ...oath to keep toxic secrets during the Cold War. When Bud Goodall's father mysteriously died, his inheritance consisted of three well-worn books: a Holy Bible, The Great Gatsby, and a diary. But they turned his life upside down. From the diary Goodall learned that his father had been a CIA operative during the height of the Cold War, and the Bible and Gatsby had been his codebooks. Many unexplained facets of Bud's childhood came into focus with this revelation.The high living in Rome and London. The blood-stained stiletto in his jewelry case. Bud, as a child, was always told he never had "a need to know." Or did he? Now, as an adult and a university professor, Goodall attempts to fill in the missing pieces of his Cold War childhood by uncovering a lifetime of family secrets. Who were his parents? What did his father do on those business trips when he was "working for the government?" What betrayal turned a heroic career of national service into a nightmare of alcoholism, depression, and premature death for both of his parents? Slowly, inexorably, Goodall unearths the chilling secrets of a CIA family in A Need to Know. 2006 Best Book Award, National Communication Association Ethnography Division
The first history of Frank Lloyd Wright's exhibitions of
his own work-a practice central to his career More than
one hundred exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright's work were mounted
between 1894 and his ...death in 1959. Wright organized the majority
of these exhibitions himself and viewed them as crucial to his
self-presentation as his extensive writings. He used them to
promote his designs, appeal to new viewers, and persuade his
detractors. Wright on Exhibit presents the first history
of this neglected aspect of the architect's influential career.
Drawing extensively from Wright's unpublished correspondence,
Kathryn Smith challenges the preconceived notion of Wright as a
self-promoter who displayed his work in search of money, clients,
and fame. She shows how he was an artist-architect projecting an
avant-garde program, an innovator who expanded the palette of
installation design as technology evolved, and a social activist
driven to revolutionize society through design. While Wright's
earliest exhibitions were largely for other architects, by the
1930s he was creating public installations intended to inspire
debate and change public perceptions about architecture. The nature
of his exhibitions expanded with the times beyond models, drawings,
and photographs to include more immersive tools such as slides,
film, and even a full-scale structure built especially for his 1953
retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Placing Wright's
exhibitions side by side with his writings, Smith shows how
integral these exhibitions were to his vision and sheds light on
the broader discourse concerning architecture and modernism during
the first half of the twentieth century. Wright on Exhibit
features color renderings, photos, and plans, as well as a
checklist of exhibitions and an illustrated catalog of extant and
lost models made under Wright's supervision.
Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of ...historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern architecture and the career of Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture is a provocative and profound polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. The book is also a work of savvy self-promotion, in which Wright not only advanced his own concept of an organic architecture but also framed it as having anticipated by decades--and bettered--what he saw as the reductive modernism of his European counterparts. Based on the 1931 original, for which Wright supplied the cover illustration, this beautiful edition includes a new introduction that puts Modern Architecture in its broader architectural, historical, and intellectual context for the first time. The subjects of these lively lectures--from "Machinery, Materials and Men" to "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper" and "The City"--move from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to particular applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at ever broadening scales. Wright's vision in Modern Architecture is ultimately to equate the truly modern with romanticism, imagination, beauty, and nature--all of which he connects with an underlying sense of American democratic freedom and individualism.
While the grandiosity of Fallingwater and elegance of Taliesin are
recognized universally, Frank Lloyd Wright's first foray into
affordable housing is frequently overlooked. Although Wright began
...work on his American System-Built Homes (ASBH, 1911-17) with great
energy, the project fell apart following wartime shortages and
disputes between the architect and his developer. While continuing
to advocate for the design of affordable small homes, Wright never
spoke publicly of ASBH. As a result, the heritage of many
Wright-designed homes was forgotten. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes
became stewards of the unassuming Elizabeth Murphy House near
Milwaukee, they began to unearth evidence that ultimately revealed
a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and
conflicting visions of America. The couple's forensic pursuit of
the truth untangled the ways Wright's ASBH experiment led to the
architect's most productive, creative period. Frank Lloyd
Wright's Forgotten House includes a wealth of drawings and
photographs, many of which have never been previously published.
Historians, architecture buffs, and Wrightophiles alike will be
fascinated by this untold history that fills a crucial gap in the
architect's oeuvre.
The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison.Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the ...Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life: a maximum security prison. His analysis calls into question the extent to which prisons can succeed in their attempts to control every facet of life--or whether the strong bonds between prisoners make it impossible to run a prison without finding ways of "accommodating" the prisoners.Re-released now with a new introduction by Bruce Western and a new epilogue by the author, The Society of Captives will continue to serve as an indispensable text for coming to terms with the nature of modern power.
The Tender Detail tells a story about the repression of sentimentality through architectural ornament. The protagonists are Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, two of the most important ...architects and designers of ornament in American history.Exploring how both men worked to solve the problem of late nineteenth-century ornamentation, the book interweaves close readings of their buildings and writings with wide ranging discussions across the fields of architecture, sexuality, gender, and philosophy. It suggests that their solutions, while widely different, were both intimately rooted in the tender emotions of sentimentality. Viewing ornament in this way reveals much, not only about Sullivan and Wright's artistic intentions, but also about the role of affect, the value of beauty, and the agency and ontology of objects.Illuminated by personal stories from their respective autobiographies, which add a level of human interest unusual in an academic work, The Tender Detail is a readable, scholarly study which sheds fresh light on Sullivan and Wright's relationship, their work, and on the nature of ornament itself.
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79) was one of the most militant and uncompromising abolitionists in the United States. This engrossing book presents six essays that reevaluate Garrison's legacy, his ...accomplishments, and his limitations.
