Wizard of the Dome (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Sidney Rosen
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1895–1966
- Setting: Bear Island, Maine; Massachusetts; New York; Illinois; North Carolina; Virginia; and Quebec, Canada
- Principal Characters: R. Buckminster Fuller, Anne Hewlett Fuller, Alexandra Fuller, Mr. Hewlett, Allegra Fuller, Christopher Morley, Henry Ford II, Matsutaro Shoriki
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Science or scientists, Idealism, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Japan or Japanese people, Biography, Inventions or inventors, Houses, mansions, or manors, Architecture or architects, Geometry
- Locales: Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Illinois, Maine, Quebec, Canada
Form and Content
Sidney Rosen’s Wizard of the Dome: R. Buckminster Fuller, Designer for the Future, a detailed biography of this original thinker, has remarkable continuity for a life story, probably because Fuller was a remarkably persistent man. The ideas on which he began working shortly after quitting college, ideas that all turned on the solution of practical problems such as those of housing, were not accepted or tried out until ten, twenty, or often thirty years after they were developed.
Throughout this period of nonrecognition, Fuller never lost faith...
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