Bookshelf: Spring 2025

American Modern is not a guidebook; it’s a well-researched and highly readable monograph that explores the complex economic, political, and social backstory that’s usually missing from standard architectural narratives. It’s illuminating to learn, for instance, that the Miller family’s civic generosity was, as Shaw writes, “borne out of a wholly American combination of enterprising business success and a devotion to Christian scripture.”

Source: Bookshelf: Spring 2025