Liberty

Dedicated on October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was the product of more than two decades of planning, raising money and building. This book follows her history from the start, explaining how she was constructed and what she has come to stand for. Readers meet several of the people behind her, among them the sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the engineer Gustave Eiffel, the architect Richard Morris Hunt and the newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. The story moves from nineteenth-century Paris to present-day New York. Original black-and-white photographs and historic images appear throughout. The chapters cover Bartholdi, the design and construction of the statue, the islands, the pedestal, Castle Garden, Ellis Island, Liberty State Park and the statue's second century.