The American Porch, featured on NPR Weekend Edition, CBS Sunday
Morning, USA Today, and in the Chicago Tribune, relates the
colorful and surprising history of the porch in a lively journey
through architecture, literature, film, photography, and pop
culture, from ancient Greece to modern day.
Solidly researched and engagingly written, The American Porch
weaves many narratives into its larger story-how the word "stoic"
originated, how James Ives got Nathaniel Currier to begin
chronicling ordinary American life, how the "front porch campaign"
became a staple of American politics, why filmmakers and novelists
love the porch, and how the porch, after vanishing from American
domestic architecture after World War II, has made a comeback
thanks to preservationists and the New Urbanist movement in town
planning and domestic architecture.
The book begins with the renovation of Dolan's own porch, which led
him on a journey of inquiry that took unexpected directions.
According to Dolan, "When my wife and I rebuilt our porch, I felt a
very deep emotion, as if I was reconnecting with something. I
hadn't grown up in houses with front porches-my folks had a brick
colonial and later a Cape Cod, then a rambler. I started wondering
why I felt such a powerful connection to the experience of being on
a front porch."
Readers of The American Porch will understand and celebrate that
connection-in the evening hours on their front porches, if they are
lucky.
The book begins with the renovation of Dolan's own porch, which led
him on a journey of inquiry that took unexpected directions.
According to Dolan, "When my wife and I rebuilt our porch, I felt a
very deep emotion, as if I was reconnectingwith something. I hadn't
grown up in houses with front porches--my folks had a brick
colonial and later a Cape Cod, then a rambler. I started wondering
why I felt such a powerful connection to the experience of being on
a front porch."
Readers of THE AMERICAN PORCH will understand and celebrate that
connection--in the evening hours on their front porches, if they
are lucky.
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