{"id":2871,"date":"2018-09-06T11:51:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:25:06","slug":"what-smart-people-are-saying-about-the-man-in-the-glass-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2871","title":{"rendered":"What smart people are saying about The Man in the Glass House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHey look it’s galleys! If you’re a member of the press or would like to write about The Man in the Glass House, let me know. But here’s what some very bright people are already saying about it:<\/p>\n

\u201cI once considered writing a novel based on the life of Philip Johnson. Mark Lamster’s excellent biography reminds me why: The Man In the Glass House is a vivid, thoughtful, illuminating, disturbing and definitive chronicle of one of 20th century architecture’s most celebrated and powerful figures.\u201c
\n\u2013 Kurt Andersen, author & host of NPR\u2019s Studio 360<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMark Lamster thoughtfully teases out the real history of this modernist icon, from his impressive sexual appetites and more-than-flirtation with fascism in Hitler\u2019s Germany to his 1990s collaboration with Donald Trump. It\u2019s clear that Johnson was a fascinating and disturbing figure; Lamster\u2019s biography, impressively and honestly, displays him with his full complexity.\u201d
\n\u2013 Ruth Franklin, author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMore than a dozen years after his death, Philip Johnson remains a perplexing, polarizing, magnetic and frustrating figure: although he was far from our greatest architect, no one did more to shape our architectural culture. In this compelling biography, Mark Lamster deconstructs Johnson\u2019s complex persona, evaluates his work and begins the process of establishing his place in history.\u201d
\n\u2013 Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winning critic and author of Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry<\/em><\/p>\n

“Philip Johnson led many lives \u2013 as curator, aspiring demagogue with a Third Reich fixation, modernist architect, winking post-modernist, and finally kingmaker in the profession \u2013 and Mark Lamster has masterfully woven them together in a biography that is as much literary as critical achievement. Required reading for anyone hoping to make sense of the American century, for Johnson was its house architect.”
\n\u2013 Christopher Hawthorne, Chief Design Officer for the city of Los Angeles and former architecture critic, Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Man in the Glass House captures the essence of a prodigious, multivalent, enigmatic American talent with authority and aplomb. It’s a biography with attitude, a bullet train through the shifting landscapes of 20th century architecture, and a sheer pleasure to read.
\n\u2013 Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and You May Also Like: Taste in An Age of Endless Choice<\/em><\/p>\n

“Philip Johnson was as complicated and contradictory as the American century that created him and which he helped define. Modernist, reactionary, anti-Semite, populist, artist and commercial powerhouse, he lived, in some sense, to contradict himself. In Mark Lamster’s nuanced telling, Johnson becomes more than the man in the round glasses, or the avatar of modernism; he becomes a symbol of America itself. This is biography as history, and it is a magnificent piece of work.”<\/p>\n

– David L. Ulin, author of Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey look it’s galleys! If you’re a member of the press or would like to write about The Man in the Glass House, let me know. But here’s what some very bright people are already saying about it: \u201cI once considered writing a novel based on the life of Philip Johnson. Mark Lamster’s excellent biography … Continue reading What smart people are saying about The Man in the Glass House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}