A fast moving extensively researched historical novel based on actual events during the politically tense period leading up

to the American Civil War. It tells the tragic story of the sculptor, Thomas Crawford, chosen to create this iconic image

crowning the Capitol Dome, Statue of Freedom. His story intermingles with some of the most interesting personages of the

era, the great abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts, Charles Sumner, Clark Mills, a self-taught sculptor and Washington

insider, and Captain Montgomery C. Meigs, working with Secretary of War Jefferson Davis to  supervise the construction

of the extension of the Capitol and its new Dome. The story moves back and forth between Crawford’s studio in the ancient

capitol Rome, Italy, , and the new capitol of the United States, Washington, DC.    toppingthedome.com

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