Table of Contents

J. Irwin Miller Family Tree

1. Lady Bird

2. Joseph

3. Muskoka

4. Irwin

5. Clessie

6. Eliel & Eero

7. Xenia

8. Home

9. Harry

10. JFK, LBJ, JIM

11. Farewells

12. Kiss

13. Mandela

14. Bach

15. a.k.a Pop

16. Afterglow

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

From Columbus, Indiana, to a Fortune 500 Empire

About the Author

Nancy Kriplen is the author of Dwight Davis: The Man and The Cup and The Eccentric Billionaire: John D. MacArthur—Empire Builder, Reluctant Philanthropist, Relentless Adversary. She worked on the editorial staffs of Time magazine and Scripps-Howard's Indianapolis Times, and her freelance articles have appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian, Bloomberg.com, Discover, and other publications

Reviews

J. Irwin Miller: The Shaping of an American Town  (Indiana University Press).  "One of the challenges in writing this book – a good challenge, actually – was braiding together into a smooth narrative all the different interests of this man, in some ways an American Medici," writes Kriplen.  Not only was Irwin Miller the longtime head of Cummins, the Fortune 500 engine company in Columbus, IN, but he worked with presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson on civil rights legislation, seriously studied the violin, and of course hatched the plan to have top rank architects design public buildings in Columbus, making it a gem of midcentury modern architecture. (Traces)