To the Editors: James Gleick in his review of Alec Nevala-Lee’s biography of Buckminster Fuller writes that “Fuller can be remembered as a crank and a charlatan and a prophet and a visionary” [NYR, November 3]. This raises the question of where the balance lies. Gleick rightly highlights Fuller’s geodesic domes as his most significant […]

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