The Architect of Desire

Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family

by Suzannah Lessard

Phoenix Paperback, Orion Books, 1997, ISBN 0753801655, black and white photographs in text, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, a little curling and creasing to edges and corners, no inscriptions, uncreased spine (see photographs)

"In 1906 on the rooftop theatre of Madison Square Garden, Standford White, one of America's leading architects, was shot dead.  His great-granddaughter, Suzannah Lessard, recently began to delve into her family's past, discovering the rampant sexual compulsion behind the murder and the effect it had on four generations of her family."