Amid modern-day racial unrest, a national pandemic, and a political divisiveness that seems to have become a dominant feature of American discourse, Harriet F. Senie offers a thoughtful reflection on the complex legacies of the four presidents memorialized on Mount Rushmore.
Amid modern-day racial unrest, a national pandemic, and a political divisiveness that seems to have become a dominant feature of American discourse, Harriet F. Senie offers a thoughtful reflection on the complex legacies of the four presidents memorialized on Mount Rushmore.
Harriet F. Senie is a professor emerita of art history at the City College of New York and at the CUNY Graduate Center. She co-founded Public Art Dialogue, an international organization, and its journal, Public Art Dialogue. Senie is the coeditor of Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversy and author of Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11, among other books.
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Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. The Land of the Lakota Sioux 2. Gutzon Borglum’s Mount Rushmore 3. George Washington Imagined 4. George Washington’s Mixed Messages 5. Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Monuments 6. Thomas Jefferson’s Complicated Legacy 7. Abraham Lincoln Commemorated 8. Abraham Lincoln’s Evolution 9. Theodore Roosevelt’s Problematic Memorials 10. Theodore Roosevelt’s Contradictory Policies Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. The Land of the Lakota Sioux 2. Gutzon Borglum’s Mount Rushmore 3. George Washington Imagined 4. George Washington’s Mixed Messages 5. Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Monuments 6. Thomas Jefferson’s Complicated Legacy 7. Abraham Lincoln Commemorated 8. Abraham Lincoln’s Evolution 9. Theodore Roosevelt’s Problematic Memorials 10. Theodore Roosevelt’s Contradictory Policies Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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