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What is Lady Liberty about?

Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States.It began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor Édouard René de Laboulaye and attended by, among others, a promising young sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. It 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 a gift from France, the cost of its creation was meant to be shared with America. To the Lady's creators and supporters, America offered liberty and the right to live one's life unencumbered—that is, without fear and with a rule of law and a government that derived its power from...

Author

Joan Marans Dims

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN