Written by the journalist Robert J. Casey with the sculptor’s widow, this biography follows Gutzon Borglum from his Idaho boyhood and early years in California, Paris and England to his New York studio, public memorials and political battles. It begins at Stone Mountain, Georgia, where his Confederate carving was abandoned, and climbs toward the colossal heads of Mount Rushmore.
A lively portrait of a combative American artist and the making of a national monument. Download the free EPUB.