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Never Ask Permission: Elisabeth Scott Bocock of Richmond Hitz, Mary Buford
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Hardcover. 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket 2000 University Press of Virginia. Previous owner's name/date/organization on 1st blank page. Noticeable wear to jacket: small rips; scratches. Spine tilted. Text clean and unmarked; pages bright. Great reading / research copy. 233 pages; Index; black-and-white photos. Language: English. 'Elisabeth Bocock's vision was of a city that would take historic preservation seriously, of a society that would accept the importance of conservation. Impatient with process and society's conventions, she used her enormous personal magnetism to circumvent them when founding many of the institutions Richmond takes for granted today. In the creation of the Historic Richmond Foundation, the Carriage Museum at Maymont, the Hand Workshop, and the Virginia Chapter of the Nature Conservancy she played the dual roles of visionary and bulldozer. While part of a tradition of strong southern women, Elisabeth Bocock's tactics were unique, as she sought to convince others of both the practical and aesthetic links between preservation and the environment. ... Never Ask Permission is not only a daughter's honest portrait of a charismatic and difficult woman who broke the threads of convention; in Elisabeth Scott Bocock we recognize the flawed but feisty, enduring character of Richmond.'--from jacket flap. Keywords: biography, biographies, memoir.
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12.00 USD
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