John Taliaferro, author of the 2002 book "Great White Fathers: The Story Of The Obsessive Quest To Create Mount Rushmore" says Borglum was cocky and prone to angry outbursts, noting: "On a strictly mercenary level, he saw the Klan's burgeoning, highly organized network throughout the South and the Midwest as a source of funds for his expensive undertaking. More than that, however, he came to view the Klan as a promising grass-roots movement with the potential to reshape the political map of the nation."
Unsurprisingly, Borglum was also an anti-Semite. In an essay he wrote in the 1920s called "The Jewish Question," he said, "Jews refuse to enter the mainstream of civilization, to become producing members of the world community. They do not share or create, but choose instead to clannishly hold onto their old ways and with mere money buy and sell the efforts of others."
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