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    He Contained Multitudes

    Sep 03, 2019 4 minutes
    Review by Amanda Kolson Hurley

    PLAGUED BY FIRE: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

    BY PAUL HENDRICKSON

    Knopf, 624 pp., $35

    IN 1957, WHILE IN New York supervising the construction of the Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright agreed to be interviewed on television by journalist Mike Wallace. By this time, Wright was 90 years old, the author of several hundred buildings, and a global celebrity—one who played the role of the uncompromising artist to the hilt.

    About 10 minutes in, Wallace noted that a younger Wright had proclaimed that he would be the greatest architect of the 20th century. Had he

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