Leave It As It Is
DAVID GESSNER
Simon & Schuster, 2020. $28.00, 352 pages.
, of course, but he often resides in the shadows, tucked in a granite niche between Jefferson, a man he loathed, and Lincoln, his hero since his youth. Mount Rushmore is just one of the innumerable places where travelers will encounter Theodore Roosevelt in the American West. From his namesake park in North Dakota to Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, TR’s presence looms over a landscape he transformed more than any other single figure in American history. In , David Gessner recounts his visit to many of these sites
