Whitney Mount

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Whitney

, Mount
A peak, 4,417 m (14,491 ft) high, in the Sierra Nevada of east-central California. It is the highest elevation in the contiguous 48 states.
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THE LAST TIME the Whitney mounted a Wood retrospective, in 1983, during Ronald Reagan's "Morning in America," Thomas Lawson reviewed the show for this magazine, and I'm afraid he did not like it: