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WRITERS > journalist, political correspondent > Simon Hoggart
America loves the...
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America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
Source: America: A User's Guide, ch. 11 (1990), remarking on Mount Rushmore.
-- Simon Hoggart, (Jan 0 1948-____), English journalist, political correspondent; His books include a Michael Foot: a Portrait, America: a User's Guide, Live Briefs (a collaboration with cartoonist Steve Bell) and Bizarre Beliefs.