![]() ![]() The house is a “refuge from the world,” lacks a telephone, fitting perfectly into nature.Īll around Stevenson in Austin are fallen men, creatures of the “Three Bs” (beefsteak, bourbon, and blondes). He designs and builds his own house in the Hill Country, carrying every stone for the fireplace from a ridge miles away. ![]() He does not seek public office, it seeks him. Everything about Stevenson is self-made, unflawed by his modernizing and corrupting society he is a self-made banker, rancher, politician, architect. He is more authentic than the others in the political arena, the “plain old Adam, the simple genuine self against the whole world,” as Emerson described the ideal American. His closeness to the land builds his body and his spirit. Coke Stevenson is the Leather-stocking as Jeffersonian, the frontiersman as democrat. For Caro, the frontier is an enchanted wilderness-the state of nature where the American character is always rejuvenated. ![]()
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