[Phil_the_Author]

I would appreciate any information about Robert hunter that might be available. This is not just limited to his work architecturally, but also any personal information of his life would be most appreciated.

[Andy Levett]

Bump...
There are a couple of pages in the Doak/Scott MacKenzie biography, which you are probably aware of. If not, I can email them to you.
Best of luck with any book

[TEPaul]

There's a very good 3 1/2 page bio on Hunter in Shackelford's "Cypress Point" with a lot of info on Hunter other than golf and architecture.

[ForkaB]

Phillip

As you may know, Hunter was a highly influential thinker on socio-economic issues, for whom golf was very much a pastime.  Just type in "Robert Hunter Poverty" into Google, and you'll get more info on his life than you might ever want!  Below is an example of his writing and thinking, both of which were world class.

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/pdocs/hunter_poverty.pdf

[Phil_the_Author]

Thanks for all the help!

[TEPaul]

Rich:

It's nice to know you've apparently read something about Hunter and perhaps had a change of opinion about him. I remember the time, not long ago, when you referred to him pejoratively as just some armchair liberal who happened to marry a rich women! It's amazing what a little reading and research can do for you, isn't it? The man appears to have been quite the intellucual, and like Max Behr that fact seemed to disturb you!  

[ForkaB]

Tom

If you'd spend more time reading stuff on GCA rather than writing it, you'd know that I posted a similar informative piece on Hunter about 2 years ago.  Tommy N. pointed me to his early non-golf works and I was impressed.  Still am.

Unlike Behr, Hunter can actually write intelligible English.......

[TEPaul]

"Tom
If you'd spend more time reading stuff on GCA rather than writing it, you'd know that I posted a similar informative piece on Hunter about 2 years ago."

Rich:

You'd be surprised how much I read on here. I remember that well a few years ago when TommyN pointed you Hunter's writing. I was referring to those pejorative and gratuitous  things you said about him before that when you knew nothing much about him apparently.  

[Lou_Duran]

It's my understanding that Hunter left his socialist roots and made a 180* conversion later in life.  

I am glad that I am not the only one who finds Behr's writings a bit tedious and unnecessarily complicated.  Where did he ever get his "lines of charm" from?  Perhaps he was the quintessential golf crazy.    

[TEPaul]

Lou:

It seems to me Behr's "line of charm" concept came from his own mind and probably his deductive reasoning involving all the "a priori" logic he purposely used to construct the entire interweaving theme of all his essays on golf architecture which he kept reiterating for almost thirty years in articles.

There's no question at all that Behr's writing style is labyrinthian and almost bizarre (tedious is not a bad description) but once you get past that it is truly amazing stuff.

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