If rather one is interested in the larger picture of how industrial gigantism has helped shape the world in which we live today, particularly as a social force, this is the book.
Protests against this state gigantism and its use of national icons has come, over the medium to longer term, from celebrities including Arundhati Roy and Aamir Khan, and especially the Narmada Bachao Andolan - an Adivasi movement that has co-opted human rights activists.
Kosen's growth and massive height is caused by a condition known as "pituitary gigantism", which is the result of an over-production of growth hormone.
Hitler's plans for the reconstruction of Berlin reflected the same neoclassical gigantism. And the interior of the palace in Bucharest, a kind of Louis XIV style on steroids, is just a more extravagant version of Donald Trump's living quarters in Florida and New York.
Hayek noted that "liberty in practice depends on very prosaic matters." Recognizing this, Reagan "call[ed] for an end to gigantism, for a return to the human scale...