Review of A Hannony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol.

Public buildings have been seen as reflections of society\u27s culture and politics for centuries, and it has been a long-accepted corollary that Americans view their state capitols as palaces of democratic government. This handsome volume, with essays by Frederick C. Luebke, H. Keith Sawyers, David Murphy, Dale L. Gibbs, Joan Woodside and Betsy Gabb, Norman Geske and Jon Nelson, and Robert C. Ripley, richly documents the story of one of the more unusual American capitol buildings: Bertram Goodhue\u27s Nebraska State Capitol. It, too, is a paean to democracy, but it is a delightful and surprising architectural maverick