A network of connections -- The time as well as the place -- A consensus of who is famous and who is not: the index of fame -- Louis Sullivan -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Henry Hobson Richardson -- McKim, Mead & White -- Latrobe and his descendants -- The Bulfinch and Renwick lines -- The European immigrant masters in the twentieth century -- Louis Kahn -- The loners -- Connections: family, friends, schools -- Self-promotion and publicity -- Other, weaker patterns -- The historians as fame makers -- Afterword on the fame-making system.
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