Stuart Leibiger, Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), p.

Philip Kennicott Fri, July 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM PDT 8 min read The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial stands near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post) - ...

A heroically scaled shirtless statue of George Washington enthroned like Zeus, commissioned from sculptor Horatio Greenough in 1832, turned out to be so weirdly off-the-mark that it sat in its ...