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Jesse Larner

Jesse Larner is a journalist and a graduate of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He has lived and worked in Poland, Taiwan and South Dakota, and presently resides in New York. Mount Rushmore: An Icon Reconsidered is his first book.

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  • Mount Rushmore

    July 26, 2002

    The history of the Black Hills and the sense of manifest destiny that haunts the monument render the faces more ironic than iconic.

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