A biography presenting Fuller as a 'raging optimist' whose hold on the young rests on his belief in them and in ephemeralization — doing ever more with less. Traces his early life from a nebulous childhood through Harvard, love, war, and the loss of his daughter Alexandra.

Buckminster Fuller at Home in the Universe

The reasons for his hold upon the young are quite simple. They believe in him because he believes in them — believes that their uncluttered, tradition-spurning minds will lead humankind out of the wilderness of fallacious reasoning and outworn concepts into a glorious era of new enlightenment when, by the intelligent use of never-diminished energy and by ephemeralization — doing ever more with less — all men will enjoy a standard of living as high or higher than the most fortunate 5 percent of now-living people. In short, among the clamorous voices of doom and gloom he alone gives them hope and a reason for being and striving.

Core structure

Raging Optimist
Beloved Island
Not So Fair Harvard
Love And War
The Happiest Years
Alexandra

Main ideas

Until he was four years old, Bucky's world was confusingly nebulous (he was severely farsighted before being fitted with glasses).
Bucky loved to dance, and one evening particularly enjoyed dancing with one of the older girls, aged nineteen.
Bucky commanded the Whisper very briefly during his naval years.

Why it matters

It documents a Fuller-related source project in a form that can be compared against the rest of the corpus, presenting the optimistic, biographical foundation beneath his later worldview.

Sources

buckminster_fuller_at_home_in_the_universe/index.md — book project directory (repo-local source tree)
buckminster_fuller_at_home_in_the_universe/ — source project root