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You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the FutureBy Jonathon Keats

Frequent Discover contributor Keats opens his biography of the great American inventor with a fabrication. Specifically, it’s the tale Fuller crafted and recrafted about an alleged suicide attempt and the subsequent epiphany that motivated him to live with purpose. Like his formidable intellect, Fuller’s self-mythology was an elastic tool he stretched to suit the audience and the occasion at hand. In vivid prose that details all of Fuller’s eccentricities and achievements, Keats strips away the icon’s layers to reveal a truer, even more fascinating portrait of the 20th century genius.

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