Anthony C. Wood with Paul Goldberger - Servant of Beauty
Tue, Nov 11 at 2pm
Preservationist and historian Anthony C. Wood discusses his book Servant of Beauty: Landmarks, Secret Love and the Unimagined Life of an Unsung New York Hero with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and architectural critic Paul Goldberger.
This fascinating biography of Albert Bard, responsible for the 1956 Bard Act that enabled New York to pass its influential landmarks preservation law, reveals a visionary activist whose public existence revolved around the protection of civic beauty—involving David and Goliath battles with Robert Moses—while his private life was dominated by his hidden love for a younger man, which led to a dramatic spy scandal.
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