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    <body><![CDATA[SPOILERS<br/><br/>If you've read &quot;Loving Frank&quot; or any other books about Wright, you know that he and a neighbor defied society, left their children and spouses, and lived openly together in a world that condemned them.  Just a few years later, Mamah, the love of Wright's life, died in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38716093">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What an intriguing read! I was hesitant about getting this book when I visited Oak Park, Ill. and the Frank Lloyd Wright house there, only because it looked like a low-budget endeavor. However, I was very impressed with Drennan's writing style and depth of research in this book. One thing that bothe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71346494">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was interesting to me as a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright. It was fairly dry and not super detailed. For someone who didn't know anything about this chapter in Wright's life, it was a bit lacking and slow to get to the point. <br/>Only recommended for fans of Wright who want to get more info o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13794759">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;     The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright&rsquo;s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright&rsquo;s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan&rsquo;s exhaustively researched <em>Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders.</em><br/>      In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and &quot;love cottage&quot; for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others).<br/>       Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright&rsquo;s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull.<br/>      Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright&rsquo;s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My friend, Vicky York, gave 4 stars to: Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William R. Drennan <br/>status: Read in November, 2009<br/><br/>&quot;When I was recently in Chicago, I stopped by the Chicago Architecture Foundation to look at tours. I started talki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78119895">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;     The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright&rsquo;s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright&rsquo;s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan&rsquo;s exhaustively researched <em>Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders.</em><br/>      In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and &quot;love cottage&quot; for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others).<br/>       Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright&rsquo;s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull.<br/>      Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright&rsquo;s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The murders at Taliesin were news to me. Did the author mean to plant the question in the reader's mind that the murders were linked to Frank Lloyd Wright?  That thought lingered -- and fizzled. <br/><br/>I took the tour there some years ago and am reminded of how arrogant he appeared in the video...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41944586">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;     The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright&rsquo;s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright&rsquo;s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan&rsquo;s exhaustively researched <em>Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders.</em><br/>      In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and &quot;love cottage&quot; for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others).<br/>       Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright&rsquo;s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull.<br/>      Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright&rsquo;s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright&rsquo;s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Supplying both a gripping mystery story and a portrait of the artist in his prime, William Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright&rsquo;s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;DIV&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It received three stars as opposed to two only because of the story that seems to be so hidden yet is a crucial part of Wisconsin history.<br/>The author (a University professor) wrote this like a paper waiting to be graded.<br/>Full of pompous words that added nothing.<br/>If you can get past th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45633511">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;     The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright&rsquo;s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright&rsquo;s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan&rsquo;s exhaustively researched <em>Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders.</em><br/>      In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and &quot;love cottage&quot; for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others).<br/>       Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright&rsquo;s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull.<br/>      Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright&rsquo;s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a factual account of the murder of the mistress of Frank Lloyd Wright, her children and several workmen. The murders took place in Wright's house, named Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The house was set on fire and destroyed by the murderer.  the book also gives an accounting of Wright...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39932627">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;     The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright&rsquo;s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright&rsquo;s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan&rsquo;s exhaustively researched <em>Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders.</em><br/>      In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and &quot;love cottage&quot; for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others).<br/>       Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright&rsquo;s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull.<br/>      Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright&rsquo;s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it after reading &quot;Loving Frank&quot;, which I think was a good order to read them both. I liked it. It's clearly a very gruesome topic, but you get into the WHY? Obviously no one will ever know for certain, but it's interesting to dissect it, the statements and the rumors etc. etc. and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42126611">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;     The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright&rsquo;s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright&rsquo;s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan&rsquo;s exhaustively researched <em>Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders.</em><br/>      In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and &quot;love cottage&quot; for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others).<br/>       Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright&rsquo;s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull.<br/>      Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright&rsquo;s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was interesting, and I appreciated all the background information as well as the &quot;what happened then&quot; epilogue, but very little of the book actually focused on the murders and what was there was incredibly graphic. (And, I think, sensationalized, especially in terms of the poor little...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71787831">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;     The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright&rsquo;s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright&rsquo;s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan&rsquo;s exhaustively researched <em>Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders.</em><br/>      In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and &quot;love cottage&quot; for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others).<br/>       Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright&rsquo;s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull.<br/>      Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright&rsquo;s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having gone through a let's-read-about-Frank-fiction-and-nonfiction phase recently, this book will have happily ended it.  It is an excellent history book in that it questions, parts the fact from the myths, and is generally fair.  It's hard to write about a massive egotist without showing some angr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62532693">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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