Lewis Mumford in the first of seven conversations with Malcolm MacEwen, recorded at his home in New England.
The Golden Day for Mumford was the period before the Civil War when a number of indigenous American writers emerged - Fennimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and Ralph Emerson. Mumford's pioneering study on American literature was written over 50 years ago, preceding his work in the fields of art, architecture, the city and technology.