Guide to Easier Living
A more retro-appropriate volume is Mary and Russel Wright's "Guide to Easier Living" (Gibbs Smith), originally out in 1950. It's depressing to realize that all of America never lived up to the modernist utopia this book projected. But it's equally fun reading about the era's "increasingly mechanized civilization" next to illustrations of typewriters. (Bret BegunNewsweek2003-05-19)Before there was Martha there were the Wrights whose vision for a modernist Utopia blew away the Victorian dust motes and seems as fresh today as it did 60 years ago.(Dwell Magzine2009-05-01)