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Plagued by Fire

The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

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Plagued by Fire

Auteur(s): Paul Hendrickson
Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
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 Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made.

This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the Wright of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his life; the connection between the 1921 Black Wall Street massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the murder of his mistress, her two children, and four others at his beloved Wisconsin home.

In showing us Wright’s facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form a fresh, deep, and more human understanding of the man. With prodigious research, unique vision, and his ability to make sense of a life in ways at once unexpected, poetic, and undeniably brilliant, he has given us the defining book on Wright. Architecture Art et littérature Artistes, architectes et photographes Biographie
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This book was very good, but it’s long. Be ready for a long listen. I would say the book is more about the man than his architecture. Yet that doesn’t quite capture it… it is also about surrounding events, many of which involve fire. For example, the mass murder carried out by a servant at one of his homes, went far into the bloodlines of the perpetrator, including the roots of slavery. On this subject, as well as several others, the author indulges in a lot of conjecture. This isn’t my judgement… the author does not hide it, he says “maybe this” or “it could possibly” throughout, leaving me very unsure about the accuracy of the probabilities he comes up with, even though he backs up the evidence. If this kind of thing drives you crazy, then pick a different biography of Wright. Otherwise, it kept my attention.

Very long … with lots of conjecture

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At first the length of this audiobook seemed daunting but the storytelling and the excellent narration was so compelling that the time seemed to fly by. An architect myself, I found that the building projects were treated intelligently with critiques from FLW's contemporaries, however I discovered that the exploration of the human side of this "honestly arrogant - not insincerely humble" man was absolutely fascinating. Paul Hendrickson sometimes tests the reader with lengthy tangential stories of his subject's family, friends, employees and clients, yet we end up grateful for knowing more of the rich historical context of the life and times of "America's Greatest Architect". Not incidentally some mistruths and stereotypes are corrected in the telling. I could tell that Hendrickson, through his exhaustive research, grew to love this flawed egotistical yet singularly talented architect who rose time and again from the ashes of the many fires that plagued him throughout his long and legendary life.

Deep dive into the mystery that is FLW

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