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Mount Rushmore: An Icon Reconsidered by Jesse Larner: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2002-02-19
- Pages
- 390
- ISBN
- 9781560253464
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Public Affairs
ISBN-10
1560253460
ISBN-13
9781560253464
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2320572
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mount Rushmore : an Icon Reconsidered
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Parks & Campgrounds
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, History
Book Series
Nation Bks.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
23.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-097336
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
978.3/93
Synopsis
In a narrative combining personal experience in the American West with extensive archival research, Jesse Larner investigates the complicated and ironic history of America's "Shrine of Democracy" -- one that does not appear in the official histories and guidebooks., There are complex stories behind those faces on Mount Rushmore that have been edited out of the guidebooks and textbooks. There is the story of how the land on which Rushmore stands was expropriated from the Lakota Sioux in 1877, abrogating a major treaty. There is the story of the sculpture's creator and ideologue, Gutzon Borglum, a leader in the Ku Klux Klan, who saw in the expansion of European settlement across the American West the fulfillment of white racial destiny. Rushmore is prefigured in the story of Custer, who sealed the fate of the Black Hills when he discovered gold there in 1874. Larner traces the meaning and evolution of the Custer battle commemorations, and pursues the ways in which Custer's defeat, the killings at Wounded Knee, and Rushmore, are linked in the story of the Indians' loss of the Black Hills. Mount Rushmore also traces modern political uses of the monument, from Cold War television broadcasts to Boy Scout conventions to political campaigns. It looks at Rushmore's semi-religious status as the national shrine of Democracy, and contrasts this with political restrictions on the practice of Indian religions in the Black Hills. Finally, Larner deals with previous works on Rushmore that have avoided its message of conquest, preferring to focus on a simplistic narrative of national glory. Even the tour guides at Rushmore understand little of its real history, or of the legal fact that the land from which it rises belongs to the Lakota.
LC Classification Number
F657.R8L37 2002
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