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Auteur van Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty

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Elizabeth Mitchell is the author of nonfiction books including Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty. Her novella-length work, The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin, was a New York Times and Amazon nonfiction bestseller.

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Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty (2014) 129 exemplaren

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Geslacht: female
Nationaliteit: USA
Woonplaatsen: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Beroepen: Journalist
Korte biografie: Elizabeth Mitchell is an award-winning journalist. She served as executive editor of George magazine and features editor of SPIN. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. [from The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin (2011)]

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Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the… door Elizabeth Mitchell

I learned so much from this book but at times it was a very dry read.

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aberman | 1 andere bespreking | Sep 20, 2023 |

Liberty's Torch door Elizabeth Mitchell

A detailed history of both the artist and the statue and its long road from development to completion. It is a wonder that the Statue of Liberty was ever built because its faced major hurdles all along the way not just in design but more importantly in funding. The United States and France were to share the cost but while the French fairly quickly paid for the statue itself the US could not find donors to pay for its base. Were it not for Joseph Pulitzer (newspaper fame) taking the fundraising under his wing we might never have seen this wonderful monument built. This and many other insights are shown in this highly informative book.… (meer)

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