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An Informal History of an Informal Place by Michael Dolan |
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| The American Porch relates
the colorful and surprising history of the porch in a lively journey through
architecture, literature, film, photography, and pop culture, from ancient
Greece to modern day.
Solidly researched and engagingly written, The American Porch weaves many narratives into its larger story-how the word "stoic" originated, how James Ives got Nathaniel Currier to begin chronicling ordinary American life, how the "front porch campaign" became a staple of American politics, why filmmakers and novelists love the porch, and how the porch, after vanishing from American domestic architecture after World War II, has made a comeback thanks to preservationists and the New Urbanist movement in town planning and domestic architecture. |
The American Porch An Informal History of an Informal Place by Michael Dolan The Lyons Press, 2004. Order a copy. |
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