The Intellectual Versus the City: From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright

Opening Theme -- The Irenic Age: Franklin, Crevecoeur, And Jefferson -- Metaphysics Against The City: The Age Of Emerson -- Bad Dreams Of The City: Melville, Hawthorne, And Poe -- The Displaced Patrician: Henry Adams -- The Visiting Mind: Henry James -- The Ambivalent Urbanite: William Dean Howells -- Disappointment In New York: Frank Norris And Theodore Dreiser -- Pragmatism And Social Work: William James And Jane Addams -- The Plea For Community: Robert Park And John Dewey -- Provincialism And Alienation: An Aside On Josiah Royce And George Santayana -- Architecture Against The City: Frank Lloyd Wright -- The Legacy Of Fear -- The Outlines Of A Tradition -- Romanticism Is Not Enough -- Ideology, Prejudice, And Reasonable Criticism. Morton And Lucia White. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.