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Contents
1 Raging Optimist
2 Beloved Island
3 Not So Fair Harvard
4 Love And War
5 The Happiest Years
6 Alexandra
7 Stockade
8 Dialectic by Lake Michigan
9 The House on a Pole
10 The Guru of Romany Marie’s
11 The Dymaxion Car
12 Nine Chains
13 No Chains
14 Bucky Turns His Back
15 Geodesic Intuition
16 The Apotheosis of the Dome
17 Accelerated Toing and Froing
18 Grand Strategy
19 Anne’s Taj Mahal
20 World Game
21 The Cresting Wave
List of Figures
List of Tables
Index

List of Figures

0.1 Bucky beside the bust of him by Isamu Noguchi
2.1 The main house on Bear Island
2.2 Bucky in his kayak at Bear Island.
3.1 Middlesex Football Team (Bucky lower left).
3.2 Bucky about the time he went to Harvard.
4.1 Mr. Hewlett and the twins (Hope and Hester).
4.2 Outing at Rockaway Beach 1916. Left to right: Tilden Hazard, Anne Hewlett, Bucky, Anglesea Hewlett, unknown young man, Margery Beard, James M. Hewlett, Jr.
4.3 U.S.S. Wego.
4.4 East facade of Rock Hall where Anne and Bucky were married.
7.1 From patent drawing of Stockade Building System.
8.1 Portrait of Bucky, 1928, by Anne Fuller.
9.1 First Dymaxion House, Chicago, 1927 (taken from original 1927 patent drawings).
9.2 The auxiliary lugger Lady Anne lying at Wiscasset, Maine.
9.3 Bucky lecturing.
11.1 Buckminster Fuller scale drawing of first Dymaxion car, 1933.
11.2 Bucky at the wheel of the first Dymaxion car, 1934.
13.1 Floor plan of double Dymaxion Deployment Unit.
13.2 Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 1940.
13.3 Interior of Dymaxion Deployment Unit furnished as a home, 1940.
14.1 Prototype of Dymaxion Dwelling Machine being built at Beech Aircraft, 1945.
14.2 Interior of Dymaxion Dwelling Machine, 1945.
15.1 Tensegrity Dome skeleton, 1953.
16.1 Looking upward through the octet trusses oj the Ford Rotunda Dome, 1953.
16.2 The first Radome installed by the U.S. Air Force above the Arctic Circle in Northern Canada, 1956.
16.3 Concert audience seated in first Kaiser Dome in Honolulu twenty-three hours after its disassembled components arrived in Hawaii.
16.4 The U.S. Pavilion at the International Trade Fair in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1956.
17.1 Living room of the Fullers' Dome House in Carbondale (Anne on sofa, Bucky at rear), 1963.
18.1 Composite picture of Dome covering midtown Manhattan, 64th Street to 22nd Street and river to river.
18.2 Tetrahedronal City floating at sea.
18.3 Tetrahedronal City
18.4 Ephemeralization. Floatable cloud-structure spheres 16 mile in diameter.
19.1 Anne's Taj Mahal, the Expo '67 Dome.
21.1 Bucky and his family: Bucky, Anne, Allegro holding cat (Gemini), Jaime, Alexandra holding Mustachio, Bob Snyder’s head between Jaime and Alexandra, 1963.
21.2 Bucky and Alden at Camden, September 1972.
21.3 Allegro Fuller Snyder, 1972, aboard the Intuition.
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