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The alphabet of wood and stone has been arranged over the ages to shape and express the values and aspirations embodied in civic life. Architecture, Liberty and Civic Order is at once a commanding chapter in architectural history and a significant treatise on philosophy of art. Professor Westfall's narrative guides the reader to the various purposes served by that one form of art that is irreducibly civic. The treatment is authoritative and accessible; rich and deeply suggestive. It is also a much needed challenge to conventional wisdom on the alleged progressive evolution of genres. - Daniel Robinson, Oxford University, UK and Georgetown University, USA Westfall presents this immensely impressive and intellectually innovative study of the great names in the history of architecture and architectural theory from antiquity to the present day as a book about the most important thing we can make, the city. He sees throughout the significance of religion and politics, noting how Vitruvius prided himself for being the client of his imperial patron, while Alberti presented the architect as a citizen who renders his service as a participant in the protection of his city's liberty and ... the pursuit of the good. He observes of the International Style that Buildings based on the machine analogy remain mere buildings and cannot become architecture. There are challenging thoughts on every page of this deeply researched book on the classical language of architecture, timeless but ever new. - David Watkin, University of Cambridge, UK and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Greene is helping reshape how history is read and understood, allowing for a much-needed rediscovery of the gay authors from the past who were brave enough to travel down the 'blue road of romance' -- Journal of Southern History Harlan Greene's biography is the first book to thoroughly assess Hervey's early short fiction, novels, and the impromptu voyages to Asia that inspired them; it is also the first to acknowledge his swishy influence on Golden Age screenwritting. -- Gertrude Press

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Harlan Greene is the author of the novels Why We Never Danced the Charleston, What the Dead Remember, and The German Officer’s Boy. His nonfiction includes books and essays on literary, African American, Jewish, gay, and South Carolina lowcountry topics. Now the head of the College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library, he has been affiliated with the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, the Charleston County Public Library, the North Carolina Preservation Consortium, and the South Carolina Historical Society. He lives in his native city of Charleston, South Carolina, with his partner, Jonathan Ray.

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