Stephen Bayley

An ambivalent icon

Far from protecting the huddled masses, Liberty was designed to dominate New York Bay in an anti-British show of French colonial ambition

  • Sentinel: The Unlikely Origins of the Statue of Liberty

    Francesca Lidia Viano

    Harvard, pp. 577

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