Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age to a stint as a

to a stint as a city bartender at what might have been a drug front

The book brings together a series of lectures on education that Lewis delivered over three nights at the University of Durham

as told through the lively voices of the people who built it

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future

Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age to a stint as aA New Yorker Best Book of the Year How the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens transcended scandal to enrich their times. Stanford White was a louche man about town and a canny cultural entrepreneur the creator of landmark buildings that elevated American architecture to new heights. Augustus Saint Gaudens was the son of an immigrant shoemaker, a moody introvert, and a committed procrastinator whose painstaking work