| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mount Rushmore. By John Taliaferro. (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002. 453 pp. Illustrations, bibliographic essay, index. $27.50.)

The creation of a national icon and the biography of its architect gain expression in novelistic journalism. Taliaferro, a Newsweek editor, meandered through the Black Hills, conducted some interviews, and selectively perused secondary sources while he composed a storyline that reads like a nineteenth-century travel account. Loosely connected snippets of information are laced with errors, which a publisher should have eliminated by peer review. For instance, the Sioux came from "east of the Appalachian Mountains, where they first made contact with Europeans in the 1600s" (p. 25). Numerous mistakes notwithstanding, the text is an interesting, provocative, easy read.

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