The Legends of Mount Rushmore: The Lives of George by Charles River Editors

*Includes biographies of all four presidents on Mount Rushmore
*Includes images of Mount Rushmore, the four presidents, and demanding humans, areas and occasions of their lives.
*Includes an advent for every president
*Includes a desk of Contents

A lot of ink has been spilled masking the lives of history’s such a lot influential figures, yet how a lot of the woodland is misplaced for the timber? In Charles River Editors’ American Legends sequence, readers can get stuck on top of things at the lives of America’s most vital women and men within the time it takes to complete a shuttle, whereas studying attention-grabbing proof lengthy forgotten or by no means identified.

In the Nineteen Twenties, plans have been made to carve the figures of America's maximum presidents into Mount Rushmore, the tallest spot within the Black Hills of the Dakotas. through 1939 the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt were carved into the rock, and considered one of America's maximum nationwide monuments used to be born.

The 4 males have been definitely valuable of being immortalized in granite. each American is taught a pristine narrative of the existence and legacy of George Washington and will simply recite the highlights and myths of Washington's lifestyles. Thomas Jefferson used to be instrumental in authoring the announcement of Independence, laying out the ideological basis of the idea of states’ rights, top one of many first political events, and overseeing the growth of the USA in the course of his presidency. Schoolchildren can recite the existence tale of Lincoln, the “Westerner” who proficient himself and have become a self made guy, emerging from attorney to chief of the hot Republican celebration ahead of changing into the sixteenth President of the USA and saving the Union. And on the flip of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt got here to be well-known because the indispensable American, remembered for being a president, explorer, hunter, writer, soldier, president, and safari adventurer, all of which mix into one distinct acceptance.

Mount Rushmore poignantly symbolizes the legacies and legends of those males, which regularly overshadow the particular males themselves. as well as protecting the entire accomplishments and the turning out to be legacies of those four presidents, The Legends of Mount Rushmore humanizes each one of those nice leaders, interpreting what they have been really like. besides images of every president and the real humans, areas and occasions of their lives, you are going to know about the Mount Rushmore presidents such as you by no means have ahead of, very quickly at all.