R. Buckminster Fuller: World Man is based on the inaugural Kassler endowed lecture delivered by Fuller at Princeton University School of Architecture on October 5, 1966. The book reproduces a neverbeforeseenorpublished facsimile of the lecture's transcript, found in the Princeton School of Architecture archives, in its original format. This extraordinarily original and unique transcript of the lecture was originally commissioned to an official transcribing service: "John F. Trainor, Helen C. Johnson, CRS; Official Reporter, Trenton, New Jersey" and is reproduced in the book in its official format from 1966.