Philip Johnson

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part One: Origins and Directions, 1652-1934
From Nieuw Amsterdam to Overlook Road
Homer and Louise
The Irreplaceable Heir
Harvard: Collision of Mind and Heart
Alfred Barr
The Pilgrimage Roads
Moma, Russell, and the New Style
Mies
The American Invasion
The 1932 Show: The Revolution Goes Uptown
The Rise and Fall of Art
Part Two: The Inglorious Detour, 1934-1946
Zarathustra and the Kingfish
New London and the Radio Priest
Tomorrow the World
Back to Harvard
The Penitential Private
Part Three: Rebirth and Renewal, 1946-1953
Barr Again, Moma Again, Mies Again
Domesticity
Opus In Vitro
The Early Fifties: Work, People, Worldview
Part Four: The Break with Modernism, 1953-1967
"It Is All Socrates's Fault"
Yet Again Mies: Easy to Shoot At, Hard to Bring Down
Historophilia and Monumentality
Wandering Minstrel
The Sixties: Laurels and Ass's Ears
New Canaan
Urbanism and Its Discontents
Outpaced and Restored by the Young
Part Five: Superstardom, 1967-
Burgee of Chicago
Raised Up at AT&T, Brought Low at Moma
The PoMo Revel
Peter
Philip and David at Home
Decon
Burgee: Discarded by the Discarded
The Summing Up: Berlin, 1993
Work in Progress
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Permissions Acknowledgments
Photograph Credits