Title:
Grant's Tomb : the epic death of Ulysses S. Grant and the making of an American pantheon / Louis L. Picone.
ISBN:
9781950691708
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Arcade Publishing, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
xi, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
General Grant is doomed -- It is all over -- Mother takes Riverside -- A colossal and memorable demonstration -- A sacred duty -- An American pantheon -- The humiliating spectacle -- Let us have peace -- Long-range good hands -- We have fights here too -- If the old guy were alive, he might have enjoyed it.
Summary:
" ... [N]arrates the national response to Grant's passing and how his tomb came to be: the intense competition to be the resting place for Grant's remains, the origins of the memorial and its design, the struggle to finance and build it over the course of twelve years, and the vicissitudes of its afterlife in the history of the nation up to recent times."--Inside jacket flap
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OCLC Number:
on1230146507
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