Witold Rybczynski

A Clearing In The Distance (eBook, ePUB)

Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.

We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes -- among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, and Boston's Back Bay Fens. But Olmsted's contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinarily diverse talents. Born in 1822, he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofounded The Nation magazine and was an early voice against slavery. He managed California's largest gold mine and, during the Civil War, served as the executive secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission, the precursor of the Red Cross.

Rybczynski's passion for his subject and his understanding of Olmsted's immense complexity and accomplishments make his book a triumphant work. In A Clearing in the Distance, the story of a great nineteenth-century American becomes an intellectual adventure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439125106
• Artikelnr.: 39163946

Autorenporträt

Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture and urbanism for The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Home and the award-winning A Clearing in the Distance, as well as The Biography of a Building, The Mysteries of the Mall , and Now I Sit Me Down. The recipient of the National Building Museum’s 2007 Vincent Scully Prize, he lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he is emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
Schemes
1. "Tough as nails"
2. Frederick goes to school
3. Hartford
4. "I have no objection"
5. New York
6. A year before the mast
7. Friends
8. Farming
9. More farming
10. A walking tour in the old country
Jostling and Being Jostled
11. Mr. Downing's magazine
12. Olmsted falls in love and finishes his book
13. Charley Brace intervenes
14. Yeoman
15. A traveling companion
16. The Texas settlers
17. Yeoman makes a decision
18. "Much the best Mag. in the world"
19. Abroad
Hitting Heads
20. A change in fortune
21. The Colonel meets his match
22. Mr. Vaux
23. A brilliant solution
24. A promotion
25. Frederick and Mary
26. Comptroller Green
27. King Cotton
28. A good big work
29. Yeoman's war
30. "Six months more pretty certainly"
31. A letter from Dana
32. Never happier
33. Olmsted shortens sail
34. A heavy sort of book
35. Calvert Vaux doesn't take no for an answer
36. Loose ends
A Magnificent Opening
37. Olmsted and Vaux plan a perfect park
38. Metropolitan
39. A stopover in Buffalo
40. Thirty-nine thousand trees
41. Best-laid plans
42. Henry Hobson Richardson
43. Olmsted's dilemma
44. Alone
45. "More interesting than nature"
46. Olmsted in demand
47. "I shall be free from it on the 1st of January"
Standing First
48. An arduous convalescence
49. Fairstead
50. The character of his business
51. The sixth park
52. Olmsted meets the Governor
53. Olmsted and Vaux, together again
54. "Make a small pleasure ground and gardens"
55. Olmsted drives hard
56. The fourth muse
57. Dear Rick
58. Sunset
Olmsted's Distant Effects
Distant Effects
A Selected List of Olmsted Projects
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Illustration and Photograph Credits