The American Machine: Essays on Building
Travis L. Guckert
LeMay Publishing
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The American Machine: Essays on Building
Essay Collection8,806 words29 chapters
Published by LeMay Publishing. 8,806 words across 29 chapters.
About This Publication
Collected essays on American industrial identity, institutional construction, and the obligation to build.
Published by LeMay Publishing, a division of LeMay. Massachusetts.
ISBN: 979-8-0000-5211-2
Chapters
1THE AMERICAN MACHINE
2Essays on Building
3Travis L. Guckert
4TABLE OF CONTENTS
5PREFACE
6On the Obligation
7I
8The American Machine
9II
10Cathedral Thinking in the Age of the Quarter
11III
12What We Owe the Concrete
13IV
14The Institutional Deficit
15V
16Against Comfort
17VI
18On Founders and Foremen
19VII
20The Apprentice Republic
21VIII
22Edges: A Theory of Useful Friction
23IX
24The Case for Density
25X
26Finishing the Building
27AFTERWORD
28A Note on LeMay
29ACKNOWLEDGMENTS