Glenn Porter Bücher

The Porter brothers, Glenn and Steven, were in their twenties and had their whole lives in front of them. They found jobs and worked at a business where the wealthy owners had two beautiful daughters. Glenn and Steven pursued these two girls with hopes of marriage. The Porters eventually quit working at the business, and everything turned against them. The two daughters labeled the Porter Brothers as runners, men who run away from the responsibility of marriage, while their rich parents put out a statewide man hunt alert for the state of Maine. The Porters were blacklisted statewide. Their story caught on like wildfire through the rest of Maine. Many people were jealous that they could become rich overnight by marrying these two wealthy daughters. There would be more than one murder attempt on the Porter brothers' lives in order to prevent them from becoming rich. This is the Porter Brothers' Tragedy, filled with romance, violence, and stories of torture and disappointed hopes.

Between the 1930s and the 1960s, Raymond Loewy's streamlined designs transformed countless consumer goods, from toasters to automobiles, significantly altering American life. Known as the father of modern industrial design, he graced the cover of Time in 1949 and was named one of Life's "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century" in 1990. Mid-century Americans unknowingly inhabited a Loewy-designed world, influencing everything from cigarette packaging (Lucky Strike) to Coca-Cola dispensers, Pepsodent tubes, Studebaker cars, Greyhound buses, Pennsylvania Railroad trains, and department stores like Gimbel's and Lord & Taylor. His 1951 publication captures the height of his career, showcasing his firm, Raymond Loewy Associates, which consulted for over a hundred major corporations, generating more than $3 billion in product sales annually. This richly illustrated book serves as both an autobiography and a design manifesto, celebrated for its wit, unique perspectives, and insights into the Loewy aesthetic. It stands as a significant document of the American Century and a vital reflection on the role of industrial design in everyday life.