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This kaleidoscopic survey of architecture and design traces the federal government's role in shaping America's built environment from L'Enfant's baroque plan for Washington, D.C. to the space-age technology of Cape Canaveral. Its rich exhibit of documents and photographic material accompanied by a lively text reveal the U.S. government to be one of the most active, and at times most creative, patrons of architecture and design.
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"Thoreau was a builder, and so are Levitt and sons, a beaver, a child with blocks and Uncle Sam. Of all these, the last is the least known... from the drawing of Indians worshipping at a shrine to the photograph of the long cold corridors picturing Any Bureaucracy U.S.A., this is an invaluable source work. Anyone who dabbles in government building, design or even politics, scanning its pages, topic headings, outlines and summaries, will find that the book reeks of current predicaments... Thick-skinned or not, Presidents and politicians... have determined large slices of our surroundings, and the virtual catalogue of architectural projects in The Federal Presence provides a clear view of how far and to what effect the shadow of the eagle's wings has spread."
—Jane Holtz Kay, The Nation
"With over 900 photographs, many quotations from historic sources, and a most readable text, this book puts the knotty problem of federal design into clear, historic perspective."
—Wolf Von Eckardt, Cleveland Plain Dealer
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