ABSTRACT
PRESERVATION PROFESSION PICKS PRUDENCE OVER PASSION. Or SO one might summarize Antoinette Lee's account of preservation's last forty years. I Once upon a time, historic preservation was a passionate protest. Now it's a prudent profession. The question is: Could this careful, practical, wellorganized profession of historic preservation once again give rise to a movement-a passionate effort to change, in profound ways, how society imagines, preserves, and inhabits its heritage?
