Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age
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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
How the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens transcended scandal to enrich their times.
The celebrated architect Stanford White was a louche man-about-town and a canny cultural entrepreneur, the creator of landmarks that raised the stature of the American built environment. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a sculptor and the son of an immigrant shoemaker, was a moody introvert and a committed procrastinator whose painstaking work brought...






















