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Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959, examines the momentous five-year period when one of the world's greatest architects and one of the world's greatest cities dynamically coexisted.Authors Jane Hession and Debra Pickrel bring each of these unequalled characters to life, exploring the fascinating contradiction between Wright'

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Debra Pickrel, principal of Pickrel Communications, Inc., in New York, has written on architecture and design for Architectural Record, House Beautiful, Metropolis, and Preservation. She is also the coauthor of The Luxembourg House on Beekman Place: Three Portraits in Time, and author of A Day in Turtle Bay, a walking tour of her Manhattan neighborhood with a foreword by Walter Cronkite. A former executive board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, Pickrel holds a B.A. in media and journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received her M.A. in historic preservation from Goucher College. She is a native of Richmond, Virginia. Mike Wallace (1918-2012) was a correspondent emeritus for CBS. He began his career as a newsman in the 1940s, joining 60 Minutes when the program first aired in 1968. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Wallace was the recipient of twenty Emmy Awards, and was an inductee of the Television Academy Hall of Fame, among other accolades. His final book, Heat and Light: Advice for the Next Generation of Journalists, written with Beth Knobel, was published in 2010.

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