The fall 2007 issue of The Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly (vol. 18, no. 4) is devoted entirely to Taliesin, the famous architect’s retreat upon which he had begun construction in 1911 and to which he would invite apprentices to work and live in fellowship with him starting in 1932. (Perched just beneath the crest of a hilltop in southwestern Wisconsin, Taliesin derives its name from the Welsh word meaning “shining brow.”) To the delight of Wright aficionados, The Quarterly overflows with dozens of new photographs of this recently refurbished “national treasure” rendered in bright, luminescent color. One older photograph captures Wright and his third wife, Olgivanna, clothed in fresh white outfits, strolling on an emerald slope that sits within the Taliesin compound (she carries a black parasol to shade her from the brilliant sun). The contrast between this idyllic depiction of Wright within his pastoral wonderland and the repellant characterization of the Taliesin Fellowship as a corrupt and perverse realm could not be sharper. Yet it is exactly in the latter manner that the authors of The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship enlist their considerable combined talents to document in comprehensive fashion the...