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Author
Publisher
Mikaya Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 26 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Statue of Liberty pays homage to what is best about America, but it was the idea of two Frenchmen who lived under the harsh rule of Emperor Napoleon III. Edouard Laboulaye and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi wanted to remind their countrymen that tyranny is not inevitable, that citizens have rights which no government can take from them. It took two decades of planning, fundraising, and building for their dreams to cross the ocean And now the statue...
Author
Publisher
Mikaya Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
46 pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, from its conception by John Roebling in 1852 through, after many setbacks, its final completion under the direction of his son, Washington, in 1883.
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