{"product_id":"death-in-a-prairie-house-frank-lloyd-wright-and-the-taliesin-murders","title":"Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders","description":"The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright’s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan’s exhaustively researched Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders.\nIn response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and \"love cottage\" for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others).\nConceived as the apotheosis of Wright’s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull.\nSupplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright’s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.\n\nBest Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0299222101\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0299222101.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Drennan, William R.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41419888885818,"sku":"DBV.0299222101.G","price":5.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0299222101-0.jpg?v=1778866562","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/death-in-a-prairie-house-frank-lloyd-wright-and-the-taliesin-murders","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}