Historical Evidence and Argument

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Declaiming the Endtime 1 Traveling Hopefully 5 The Anxieties of Ambiguity 15 Unraveling Gordian Knots 29 When Too Much Is Not Enough 42 The Many Births of Frank Lloyd Wright 58 Destroying in Order to Save 65 Speaking of History 77 Sensing Incongruity 91 Poisoned Chalices 102 Scotching the Myth-Making Machine 117 Irreconcilable Differences 125 “We’re Changing Everything . . . Again” 134 Rule Life vs. Real Life 148 When Might Makes Wrong 161 Six Hundred Barrels of Plaster of Paris 173 Millions of Moving Parts 186 He Says, She Says 200 Bringing Texts Up to Code 211 Gaining and Providing Access 223 Hearing a White Horse Coming 236 Notes 245 Bibliography 279 Index 317 x ❖ Contents ...