A tourist eyes a mountain sculptor close-up

From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) | Date: March 9, 2003| Author: JOHN MARK EBERHART, Knight Ridder Newspapers | Copyright information


The Record (Bergen County, NJ)

03-09-2003


A tourist eyes a mountain sculptor close-up
By JOHN MARK EBERHART, Knight Ridder Newspapers
Date: 03-09-2003, Sunday
Section: ENTERTAINMENT
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GREAT WHITE FATHERS: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. Rushmore, by John Taliaferro; Public Affairs, 400 pages, $27.50.

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