Jim Rouse

Paul Marx is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Haven. He is the author of The Modern Rules of Style (American Bar Association Publishing, 2007) and Utopia in America (Burke Publishing, 2002). He is the editor of Modern and Classical Essayists (McGraw-Hill, 1996) and Twelve Short Story Writers (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970). As a freelance writer, he has had articles in, among other journals, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Baltimore Sun.

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 AcknowledgementsPart 3 ChronologyChapter 4 What's the PurposeChapter 5 Huck on the ChesapeakeChapter 6 Jim at SchoolChapter 7 A Poor RelationChapter 8 The AceChapter 9 The Fights Against Blight and WarChapter 10 Stepping StonesChapter 11 The Company and the CityChapter 12 Bad Mall, Good MallChapter 13 The Summer of 1963Chapter 14 The Village of Cross KeysChapter 15 Columbia: The Dream, the PlansChapter 16 Columbia: The Next AmericaChapter 17 Columbia and the Vietnam WarChapter 18 A Downward TurnChapter 19 Festival Marketplace: BostonChapter 20 Festival Marketplace: BaltimoreChapter 21 The Social EntrepreneurChapter 22 Back to BaltimoreChapter 23 Last YearsChapter 24 Columbia Fully GrownChapter 25 LegacyPart 26 BibliographyPart 27 IndexPart 28 About the Author

Jim Rouse and Warren Buffett knew and had the highest respect for each other. They were aware of each other as men driven by a strong zest for life. Rouse, though, focused on “the improvement of mankind.” Buffett focused on financial returns for investors; Rouse produced houses and neighborhoods, villages and shops, woods and lakes. Except to the extent that it could limit his good works, Rouse did not care about financial returns. His worry was solvency, not increasing profitability. He had an abhorrence of selfishness.