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  • Interview with John Nash poster image canonical_images/feature/Nash_interview_canonical.jpg XXX Article
    A Brilliant Madness | Article

    Interview with John Nash

    Dr. John Nash's life — his early brilliance, his struggle with mental illness, and his slow, willful recovery — is definitely the stuff of Greek tragedy. 

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    Hitchcock's North by Northwest

    Some of the most famous images of Mount Rushmore are from Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic spy movie, North by Northwest.

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    John Boland

    John Boland, a local businessman, was Gutzon Borglum's nemesis in the creation of Mount Rushmore. 

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    The Contest to Explain Mount Rushmore

    Among his first ideas about carving Mount Rushmore into the likenesses of American presidents, the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, insisted that there should be an explanatory inscription, which he called the Entablature.

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    Carving the Mountain

    Gutzon Borglum constantly complained that he had to use miners to carve his masterpiece, rather than artists.

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    RFK: Trailer

    After an assassin's bullet took his brother's life, Robert F. Kennedy was bereft, not only of someone he loved, but of a role that had given meaning to his life.

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    Inscribe Rushmore!

    In 2002, America Experience held a competition asking viewers to send in their own inscriptions for Mount Rushmore. 

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    North by Northwest

    Plenty of "expedient exaggerations" surrounded the filming of scenes for Hitchcock's acclaimed thriller North by Northwest at Mount Rushmore in 1958. 

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    Coolidge and the Summer White House

    In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge arrived in Rapid City, South Dakota for a summer away from Washington, D.C.

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    Native Americans and Mount Rushmore

    The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived. 

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    The Keystone Boys

    Where in South Dakota, Borglum wondered, do you find a whole crew of workmen who know how to carve a mountain into work of art?

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    Senator Peter Norbeck

    Senator Peter Norbeck was Mount Rushmore's great political patron and helped raise almost a million dollars for the project.