Listen "Harold Holzer: Daniel Chester French"
Episode Synopsis
Harold Holzer talked about his new book Monument Man: The Life & Art of Daniel Chester French. French was "one of America's most prolific sculptors of public monuments," creating The Minute Man in Concord, Harvard University's John Harvard, and most famously, the statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial. Holzer discussed French's work, the controversy surrounding public monuments, the Phillip Sheridan statue in Albany, and the Lincoln Forum.
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