EPISODE · Oct 1, 2019 · 10 MIN
Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson
from Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment · host Whitney Murazik
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367196 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright Author: Paul Hendrickson Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 1, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367196 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright Author: Paul Hendrickson Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 1, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 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.
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