A clearing in the distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century

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In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.

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