When I first read about this book in The NY Times Book Review, I knew I had to have it. Having grown up on a steady diet of hearing about “Ragtime” and “The Girl on the Velvet Swing”, or how about how Clover Adams’s Memorial was on my mother’s must-see list, any book that covered any and all of that was something I needed to read. Thankfully, this did not disappoint. Stan and Gus covers the working (and potentially sexual) relationship of Standford White and […]
“What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.”-Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age by Henry Wiencek