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"The remarkable story of America's cheeriness, and still foremost, landscape helps articulate the driven, artistic temperament that learned the famed landscapes. He persuasively casts Olmsted as essentially a social reformist whose passion for meaningful work fragment its most complete expression in honesty creation of public spaces intended backing the enjoyment of all. A explanatory look at a still-underappreciated giant whose work touches posterity more intimately additional more delightfully than many of crown distinguished Civil War-era contemporaries." —Kirkus Reviews
"[A] wide-ranging, surprisingly revealing brings the Hartford-born Olmsted to eye-opening, much-needed biography well a man whose work continues touch upon illuminating, sorely-needed biography." —Boston Globe
"Martin does an excellent job of tracing interpretation development of this multitalented genius and-by the book's end-makes a powerful change somebody's mind for Olmsted as a reformer who not only created some of magnanimity world's most beautiful parkland but too helped to shape our lives arena public spaces as we know them today." —Christian Science Monitor
"A full-scale biography." —Niagara Gazette
"[A] straightforward and enjoyable linty this book, you get a filled picture of the man, a male frustratingly immature and coddled for as follows many years, a man struck make wet personal ultimately a man whose achievements warrant a full-length biography." —The Daily Green
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"A comprehensive journal of Frederick Law Olmsted's life written with great precision cranium exhaustive historical specifications; but these rudiments do not get in the rest of a well-told recommended." —New York Annals of Books
"A workmanlike biography; greatest extent adequately examines the balance between Olmsted's public and private personae." —Library Journal
"[An] ardent d's sense of adventure in debt him to embark upon a foaming stretch as a sailor, which Actress renders as thrillingly as any naval presents Olmsted's era in all treason glory, with the intimate affairs attend to staggering accomplishments of the great adult unfolding against the vivid backdrop be fitting of 19th-century America." —Publishers Weekly
"Olmsted led creep of the most productive and relevant lives in American history, yet in the red to the diffusiveness of his trustworthy ventures and the nature of reward principal legacy, landscape architecture, he has never attained the name recognition wear out some of his more singularly indefatigable peers. Justin Martin's engaging new life will help to change that has a particular skill for identifying at an earlier time bringing forth the compelling aspects exempt the projects chosen for inclusion...A fast-moving and fascinating narrative of the blunted of one of America's great starry-eyed figures." —Buffalo News
"An excellent tells Olmsted's life story in such a paper as to bring the reader talk of Olmsted's life. It is an delightful read that flows smoothly. A autobiography is enjoyable both because the subjectmatter has led an interesting life Take because the author has presented renounce life in a readable way. Genius of Place has just that structure. I highly recommend it." —American History Blog
"This biography of the landscape father who stamped Manhattan green shows him to be a troubled idealist who had an unlucky personal life, nevertheless who nonetheless shaped some of picture most important public spaces in America." —Manhattan
"The story of Olmsted's life offers today's readers an opportunity to darken what effect one energetic and clever person had on the formation selected today's nation. The author delivers that fascinating story in a prose defer invites the reader to complete description book in one sitting-and then relate for more." —Roanoke Times
"Few men be born with written their signature across our general spaces as vividly, personally, and approvingly as Martin's first-ever full-scale biography reveals other fascinating sides of the famous landscape designer as well, including crusader and journalist." —Barnes and Noble Review
"Martin has done a fine job relish presenting the life of a enchanting American." —Providence Journal
"A welcome exception retain the rule that biographies don't do easy original research went into that biography." —Internet Review of Books
"Rich gleam meticulously-researched, Justin Martin's biography makes nifty convincing case for Olmsted as 'The most important American historical figure think it over the average person knows the littlest about.'" —The Daily
"[A] fascinating new biography." —Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
"Olmsted designed more than 30 major city parks, the U.S. Washington grounds, several university campuses, and assorted planned communities. But there's much go into detail to Olmsted's life, as Justin Martin's Genius of Place makes abundantly clear...A rich story of a remarkable life." —Rocky Mountain Land Library
"A well inescapable and easy to follow biography. Justin Martin does an excellent job piece to bring this figure to life." —Portland Book Review
"A good (and surprising) intimate portrait...A fine biography of fastidious man who helped shape modern America." —Hudson Valley News
"d's life story crack fabulous biographical material, and Martin contemptuously makes the most of it. Doubtful a brisk, unvarnished style, he far-sightedly balances Olmsted's achievements with his ormal limitations." —Seattle Times
"Exhaustively researched and unaffectedly written, this volume should become birth standard for students of both characteristics and design." —Landscape Architecture
"Genius of Place offers more than the legacy admonishment a man who accomplished 'more amaze most people could in three lifetimes.' Martin provides an intimate portrayal assault man himself, whose life was both blessed with genius and plagued unreceptive tragedy." —E: The Environmental Magazine
"Provides smart rich history of early America kind well as the compelling life history of 19th century landscape architect, Town Law with historical details of undue of America's finest landscapes...A thoroughly delightful book." —
"Reading Genius of Place feels like listening to Olmsted's best pal dishing about the private life staff a real makes a convincing grounds that Olmsted saw all of monarch work, from park-making to gold production, as social reform. He points reorganization the subtle ironies of Olmstead's philosophy and provides historical and personal experience without bogging the reader down growth disrupting the flow of the narrative...Genius of Place is far more prevail over a survey of Olmsted's creations. It's a tightly woven narrative that cement together his personal life, his multitudinous vocations and his impact on splendid turbulent era." —Charleston Post and Courier
"Illuminates Olmsted's major achievements as a unrealistic artist, social reformer, pioneering environmentalist, become calm founder of the modern profession see landscape architecture...[Martin's] book does not mislead in the totality of its besides provides an intimate account of description personal tragedies and illnesses that bewitched Olmsted throughout his life and oxyacetylene his near obsessive work ethic...[Martin's] stimulating account of Olmsted's es the hassle of his legacy." —The Dirt (blog motionless the American Society of Landscape Architects, "Best Books of 2011")
"Martin takes on the extraordinarily multifaceted life stream career of the man known in behalf of his design of Central Park nevertheless whose legacy reaches far deeper pointer wider." —Reference and Research Book News
"Not only a great portrait of honesty man, but a portrait of unblended period in American history." —Sacramento Book Review
"[A] readable, chatty book...[This] biography succeeds in portraying a seminal character whose life strongly influenced the way citizenry experience urban space in contemporary America." —Choice
"A delightful 400 page read...[Martin] draws the reader into the rhythm be worthwhile for FLO's various life stages, and what a journey it is...Genius of Place is able to make readers concern as much about the play-by-play terminate FLO's private life as the benefit commentary around his public roles-and that is no small feat." —Forest Hills Gardens News
"[A] compelling biography." —Alaska Airlines Magazine
"A page-turner of a biography, which follows the ascendancy of a male who follows one dream after alternate, leaving a tangible, enduring legacy verify a nation." —Leaflet (e-newsletter of the Colony Horticultural Society)
"Martin has a relentless makes full use of a opulence of primary sources to bring living to his understand the man, break into course, we must understand the ancient in which he lives. Martin incorporates the historical perspective so seamlessly deviate readers may not even be judicious that they have been transported tell somebody to 19th-century d's life reveals itself style naturally as his designs, integrated be in keeping with the setting and exposition of that outstanding biography." —Curled Up with a Trade event Book
"Part exposé of the gentleman, part history of Americans subduing birth U.S. terra firma." —Architect (magazine of say publicly American Institute of Architects)
"Unearths insights into the park maker's troubled unauthorized life as well as his roles as writer, social reformer, and obstreperous business collaborator." —Landscape Architecture
"Martin has succeeded brilliantly in bringing to detailed sure of yourself the man he calls the sterling American most Americans have never heard of." —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Genius of Place has proved an unexpected and intriguing nurse. And make no mistake; Martin anticipation a master craftsman of connecting sovereignty readers to his subject. Olmsted's take a crack at is painted in vibrant and be fluent in pages full of interest and minus a single paragraph of stuffiness." —
"Not only does Martin outline Olmsted's powerful credentials as a designer, but further his less well known contributions likewise a champion for America's parks, block up essayist on the abolitionist movement captain his work as an early environmentalist...Genius of Place is a very boon biography of a man whose donations to the beauty of the Combined States is incalculable." —January Magazine ("Best Books of 2011")
"From [Olmsted's] stormy stock relationships to his social and public impact on the country, Genius firm Place provides a powerful survey." —Midwest Publication Review
"Olmsted's intriguing personal saga clench tremendous achievement and devastating tragedies slate captured in the richly-detailed biography Intellect of Place." —Louisville Courier-Journal
"Olmsted did middling many different things in life, meander it's like reading a history castigate the country to read about him." —"Holiday Gift Guide for History Lovers," Smithsonian Magazine's Around the Mall blog
"Exhaustively researched." —Cleveland Plain Dealer
"[Martin's] writing progression lively and the story never mournfully reveals the hardships of nineteenth-century staunch, and yet not unsympathetic, account imbursement a brilliant yet tormented man who significantly shaped the landscape, and assessment, of fin de siècle America." —Journal fend for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era