Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Mem...
Sweeney, Linda Booth / Fields, Shawn![Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/310/31002871/CHSBZCOP0331002871.jpg)
This is the story of how a farmboy became America's foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan was working the family farm when he idly carved a turnip into a frog and discovered what he was meant to do. Sweeney's swift prose and Fields's evocative illustrations capture the single-minded determination with which Dan taught himself to sculpt and launched his career with the famous Minuteman Statue in his hometown of Concord, Massachuset...