"Make an artist of yourself" -- Two mentors -- "Those were great days" -- Honeymooning in Paris -- The Farragut arises -- "Our light, our island, our town" -- A hothouse of talent -- "It's rotten, Gus, isn't it?" -- "A sculptor's dream... my adored love" -- Married life -- The pleasure palace -- "The subject is silence itself" -- Life and death in the studio -- Dazzling the metropolis -- The king of Europe goes broke -- Stan's descent -- Prodigal days -- After the fall

"A joint biography of the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the architect Stanford White"--