A Carpenter's Life

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Veteran builder Larry Hahn can drive a 16-penny spike with two licks – one to set, one to sink. Read a few pages of A Carpenter’s Life, and you’ll agree that he’s just as handy with a pen. Part memoir, part history, part social commentary, Hahn looks at American home building and 12 houses he has known intimately over a 60-year career – from a straw bale bunk house to Hab