Lady Liberty by Joan Marans Dim, Antonio Masi, Joseph Berger - 9780823285334

Lady LibertyAn Illustrated History of America's Most Storied Woman\nAuthor(s): Joan Marans Dim, Antonio Masi, Joseph Berger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823285334, 978-0823285334\nSynopsis\nMagnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States throughout the years.\n What began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor douard Ren de Laboulaye and attended by, among others, a promising young sculptor, Frdric Auguste Bartholdi, was the extravagant notion of creating and giving a monumental statue to America that celebrated the young nation's ideals. Bartholdi, and later civil engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, caught the spirit of the project and thus began the epic struggle to create, build, transport, and pay for the monument. Although The Statue of Liberty was to be.