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Saving Lady Liberty - Joseph Pulitzer's Fight for the Statue of Liberty

Claudia Friddell

Narrator Jonathan Todd Ross

Publisher: Recorded Books

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Summary

Joseph Pulitzer always loved the word liberty. It’s no surprise that when he first saw Lady Liberty’s head in Paris, Pulitzer shared sculptor Auguste Bartholdi’s dream of seeing France’s gift of friendship stand in New York’s harbor. Frustrated that Americans, especially wealthy New Yorkers, were not interested in paying for the statue’s pedestal, Pulitzer used his newspaper, the World, to call on all Americans to contribute. This is the inspiring story of how one immigrant brought together young and old, rich and poor, to raise funds for a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty, an everlasting beacon of freedom.
Duration: 22 minutes (00:21:56)
Publishing date: 2023-06-20; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2020. Copyright Statment: —