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"'The Lewis Mumford/David Liebovitz Letters' will delight anyone who likes to observe the interplay of mind and spirit between intelligent and cultivated people. The civilized intercourse reflected here is a refreshing antidote to the grinding pettiness of much of daily life. . . . Professor Knapp has done lovers of civilized discourse a real service by compiling these letters. Through her work, the reader may witness the profound communication of two lively and thoughtful men."THE ROUND TABLE OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION
Malcolm Cowley called Lewis Mumford the last of the great humanists, and indeed, in more than six decades of writing, Mumford made contributions to history, philosophy, literature, art, architectural criticism, and urban planning. The author of some thirty books, Mumford produced a body of work almost unequaled in the twentieth century for its range and richness. A New York Times Notable Book, Donald Miller's engagingly written biography reveals Mumford's full and fascinating life. Based on ten years of research and unprecedented access to original and private papers, Miller penetrates Mumford's reserved public persona and takes in the complete man, his works as well as his days, as he struggles to transform the world -- and his own life -- in decades marked by unparalleled change. Miller is an excellent critical guide to Mumford's voluminous writing. -- The New Yorker A gracefully written biography. -- Francesca McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle With this large, large-spirited life of Lewis Mumford ... Miller takes his place in the first rank of contemporary American biographers. -- David McCullough
I am a disciple of Patrick Geddes, and I am an abject admirer of everything he has said and done. The tantalising nearness of everything we most want; were it not for some fatal, stubborn grain in both of us, Geddes and I, linked together, intellectual and emotional, might still conquer the world. For lack of this, he will be imperfectly articulate and I, perhaps, will have nothing to say. These two comments by Lewis Mumford, written at either end of his largely epistolary relationship with Patrick Geddes, frame an astonishing correspondence between two of our century's greatest thinkers on Western civilisation. Mumford was the versatile New York cultural critic, famous for his writings on architecture, the city and technology. His master, Geddes, was the Scots biologist, sociologist and planner, the professor of things in general. The letters reveal much about the intellectual culture of the first half of the Twentieth Century as they chart an extraordinary Anglo-American relationship between very different men; this friendship, initially of master and disciple, even father/son, was based on a shared intellectual quest, and inspired the work of both. All that exists of those letters, and much previously unpublished material besides, has been meticulously collected and edited by Frank G. Novak Jnr..
"'The Lewis Mumford/David Liebovitz Letters' will delight anyone who likes to observe the interplay of mind and spirit between intelligent and cultivated people. The civilized intercourse reflected here is a refreshing antidote to the grinding pettiness of much of daily life. . . . Professor Knapp has done lovers of civilized discourse a real service by compiling these letters. Through her work, the reader may witness the profound communication of two lively and thoughtful men."THE ROUND TABLE OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION
Eight volumes of Twentieth-Century American Literature contain criticism of modern authors from the United States and Canada.
Representing a broad range of ethnic diversity, these in-depth profiles present fascinating accounts of lives and careers, the circumstances under which works were produced, and their literary significance. Each profile also includes critical evaluation, a list of the author's principal works with date first published, a list of major critical works, and a portrait or photograph where available.