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01772aam a2200289Ii 4500 001 1D4E94BCF42011EBA2C385FC55ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210803010021 008 201218t20212021nyuaf e b 001 0deng d 010 $a 2020945361 020 $a 1950691705 020 $a 9781950691708 035 $a (OCoLC)1230146507 040 $a LMJ $b eng $e rda $c LMJ $d BDX $d IHY $d OCLCO $d CDX $d OCLCF $d WIS $d SILO 100 1 $a Picone, Louis L., $e author. 245 10 $a Grant's Tomb : $b the epic death of Ulysses S. Grant and the making of an American pantheon / $c Louis L. Picone. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Arcade Publishing, $c [2021] 300 $a xi, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-304) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "... [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." -- From inside jacket flap. 941 $a 3 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201022842.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909063706.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210803010849.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1D4E94BCF42011EBA2C385FC55ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search