![]() ![]() Without any official backing, they designed the statue, announced the gift, and determined where it should go. ![]() With the particular insights of a cultural historian and scholar of French history, Edward Berenson tells the little-known stories of the statue's improbable beginnings, transatlantic connections, and the changing meanings it has held for each successive American generation.īerenson begins with the French intellectuals who decided for their own domestic political reasons to pay monumental tribute to American liberty. Yet no one living in 1885, when the crated monument arrived in New York Harbor, could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty would come to occupy in the American imagination. The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic StoryĪ universally recognized icon, the Statue of Liberty is perhaps the most beloved of all American symbols. ![]()
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