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“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

January 11, 2026 by bjornsnipe 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Featured, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: architecture, gilded age nyc, Henry Wiencek, homosexuality, murder

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: architecture, gilded age nyc, Henry Wiencek, homosexuality, murder ·
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