Wizard of the dome: R. Buckminster Fuller

"From Afghanistan to Montreal, from St. Louis to Honolulu, people have seen geodesic domes in spectacular use. But the American genius who created them has become almost a legendary figure instead of a real man living and working today. Here is the inventor himself, a man with the courage of his convictions, who faced a hostile society on his own terms, and won"--from front jacket flap.