1 Acknowledgments
2I express my gratitude to those whose patience and support made this book possible. My appreciation to the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller, the Fuller family, and especially to Allegra Fuller Snyder and Jaime Snyder for granting me the permission to attempt this anthology.
3 A special thanks to Calvin Tomkins for his advice and friendship. My thanks to Bucky’s and our firm’s attorney, Robert D. Storey of Thompson, Hine & Flory, LLP, for his help. Heartfelt thanks to my sailing partner, Steve Kadish, Esq., and dear Joyce Burke-Jones for their overview, and to Herb Strawbridge, Dominic J. Guzzetta, and Steve Forbes for their early support. My acknowledgment to the late Ambassador and former Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes. For her encouragement, thanks to Maria Durell Stone, the wife of the late architect Edward Durell Stone, Bucky’s friend and my former New York architectural associate. I appreciate the permission to reprint Yousuf Karsh’s photographic portraits of Bucky and me—Karsh records not just men, but history.
4 Comments from E. J. Applewhite, Shirley Sharkey, the late Kiyoshi Kuromiya, and Joe Clinton, with assistance from John Ferry at the Buckminster Fuller Institute, were helpful. And many thanks to Michael Denneny, my editor, and his assistant, Christina Prestia.
5 Sincerest gratitude to my office staff and Bucky’s architectural associates, Shoji Sadao, Robert J. Chin, Kenneth L. Papes, Robert G. Arnold, and Joyce Burke-Jones, with help from Carl Solway, Kris Corradetti, and Linda Kenski. To my son, Tommy Bates Zung, who is Bucky’s ‘‘grand-godson,’’ and Carol Williams Zung, his mother, thank you. To a very special lady; and to my beloved late sister Lee-Fong Louise Lee, my late brother William W. K. Zung, M.D., Nina Zung Harman, Yoko Zung Chinen, and brother Max M. K. Zung, M.D.—this publication is also for you.
6 Thank you all.