THE SCULPTOR WHO CARVED THE FACES OF AMERICA’S HEROIC DEAD ON GRANITE MOUNTAINS—AND THEY WERE SELDOM BIG ENOUGH. First published in 1952, Robert John Casey co-wrote this fascinating biography with the wife of Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), the American sculptor best known for his colossal sculpture of the faces of four U.S. presidents on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. The son of Danish immigrants, Gutzon Borglum studied art in San Francisco and for four years in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. His painting and his sculpture were admitted to the officially recognized Salon and he subsequently received important commissions and royal recognition whilst in England. In 1901 Borglum established himself in New York City, where he sculpted a bronze group called The Mares of Diomedes, the first piece of American sculpture bought for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Versatile and prolific, Borglum sculpted many portrait busts of American leaders, as well as of figures such as the Twelve Apostles, which he created for the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York. He turned toward reviving the ancient Egyptian practice of carving gargantuan statues of political figures in natural formations of rock, and executed from a six-ton block of marble a colossal head of President Abraham Lincoln, which was placed in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. This led to a commission in 1927 by the state of South Dakota to turn Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills, into another colossal monument, and that same year Borglum began sculpting the 60-foot-high heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt on the face of the mountain. The project was completed in 1941 and became a national memorial. Physically only medium-sized, Borglum was a big man, colorful, worth knowing. The change to know him is here in the stimulating pages of Give the Man Room.
Bob Casey's affectionate, yet critical memoir of his family's journey in America ... probes the indelible imprint of Catholicism on his life and his continuing love of his Irish roots and homeland"--Page 4 of cover.
We live in a world that tears us apart, demanding our attention and time. There are moments when we want to scream and escape and let the burdens fall from our shoulders. An Oasis in a Cluttered World is a book that allows you chapter by chapter to immerse yourself in a quiet refuge as you forget the chaos. It beckons you to let go, relax, and savor life's many riches. There is also woven into the written pages a universal spiritual strand regarding life's journey and the understanding that evolves. The book is organized so that it can be read non-sequentially, start in the middle, or back if you desire. The book contains my poems written for those who enjoy thought provoking muses as well as lyrics that are understandable and unpretentious. Even if poetry is not your favorite genre, there are vignettes, short essays, and recommendations to captivate your interest. However, do not be surprised if your preconceived ideas regarding poetry are positively altered, as you read about the last leaf on a tree before the onset of winter or exotic Maui's magnificent Mt. Haleakala or reminiscence on a life-changing decision. As you read, we will be having a private conversation-a social interaction-my words and your thoughts and reactions. Where they take you will be your personal adventure. Occasionally, others will join us when you read the poems and vignettes written by guest authors. At the end of the book, you will have the option to offer your thoughts and even win some cash. In summary, An Oasis in a Cluttered World speaks to a mystical, quiet place where water for the soul is plentiful and the extreme heat of the desert and the blast furnace of sand no longer scorch and beat upon you.
Author Bob Casey's in the first line of Wisdom from the Journey starts with "You are about to begin a reading adventure..." With those words, the journey begins. His book offers a diverse selection of poems, comments, vignettes, and recommendations that will cause you to think, analyze, and enjoy. It is a compilation of the "best" of his monthly newsletter, the Poetical Journal. The book is written so that you can savor and read it in sections and return again to the same pages to glean new ideas and thoughts. As one reader states, ."In a world of discontent, malice, greed and wars, the Poetical Journal is an oasis to nourish the soul.
This book, first published in 1948, is an enjoyable biography of George William Borg (1887-1960), an American industrialist, inventor, and one of the founders of the Borg-Warner Corporation. While at Borg & Beck, which was formed in 1914 by his father Victor Borg and Gary Marshall Beck, George W. Borg was instrumental in developing the first successful automobile clutch, a revolutionary clutch using a circular pressure plate that would hold well when engaged yet slip as needed when starting out. He managed the partnership, which was ultimately merged with Warner Transmission in 1922 to form Borg-Warner Corp. In 1925, Borg, who wanted his own business independent of Borg-Warner, collaborated with William Greenleaf to develop a new venture in automobile clocks. Following a brief partnership with Greenleaf Corp. from 1926-1927, Borg set up the George W. Borg Corp, whose clocks first appeared in 1928. With the Depression soon at hand, Borg’s lower-cost clocks were in demand, and soon Borg clocks were sold as factory equipment in all the major car lines, including General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler.
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