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Crowned with the Statue of Independence the Capitol Dome is one of America's most iconic images. This carefully investigated historical novel tells the storyline of Statue of Freedom's creation and its own creator Thomas Crawford. As Crawford trips between the ancient Capitol of Rome and the new Capitol of America, artwork and politics collide. Congress is bitterly divided over the problem of slavery, but Crawford would eventually create more sculpture for the Capitol than some other sculptor. Three other men, Charles Sumner, a staunch abolitionist, Senator, and ideologue, Clark Mills, a self-taught sculptor and opportunist, and the supervisor of development of the Capitol, Captain Montgomery C. Meigs, an autocratic achiever, play major assignments in this powerful story.
