A review by haholmes
Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty by Elizabeth Mitchell

1.0

I found this book to be a rather dull and seemingly drunken explanation of how the Statue of Liberty was pawned off on the United States. It reads like an inebriated historian overly excited about their research, instead of a poignant piece of scholarship. The story-line often rambles away from Bartholdi's goal to build a grand colossus for anyone who would have it to include weird factoids. I appreciate the amount of effort exerted to find the information, but I think it could have been presented better.