Conceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation\'s highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886.
Following the statue\'s twenty-year journey from concept to construction, Khan reveals in brilliant detail the intersecting lives that led to the realization of Laboulaye\'s dream: the Marquis de Lafayette
Alexis de Tocqueville; the sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, whose commitment to Liberty and self-government was heightened by his experience of the Franco-Prussian War; the architect Ric.
For Laboulaye and all of France, the Statue would be called La Libert clairant le Monde--Liberty Enlightening the World. can long endure." People around the world agreed with Lincoln that this question--and the fate of the Union itself--affected the "whole family of man."Inspired by the Union\'s victory and stunned by Lincoln\'s death, douard-Ren Lefebvre de Laboulaye, a legal scholar and noted proponent of friendship between his native France and the United States, conceived of a monument to Liberty and the exemplary form of government established by the young nation. . .
Khan\'s narrative begins on the battlefields of Gettysburg, where Lincoln framed the Civil War as a conflict testing whether a nation "conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal .
In Enlightening the World, Yasmin Sabina Khan provides a fascinating new account of the design of the Statue and the lives of the people who created it, along with the tumultuous events in France and the United States that influenced them.
Although it is among the most famous sculptures in the world, the story of its Creation is little known.
Dramatically situated on Bedloe\'s Island (now Liberty Island) in the harbor of New York City, the Statue has served as a reminder for generations of immigrants of America\'s long tradition as an asylum for the poor and the persecuted.
Conceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation\'s highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886
