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Author:

Picone, Louis L., author.

Title:

Grant's Tomb : the epic death of Ulysses S. Grant and the making of an American pantheon / Louis L. Picone.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Arcade Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xi, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-304) and index.

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." -- From inside jacket flap.

ISBN:

1950691705
9781950691708

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1230146507

LCCN:

2020945361

Locations:

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)