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In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman, New York Times bestselling author Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of history in the life and times of the man responsible for the creation of the United States' principal cultural institution, the Smithsonian.It wa...
Author
Nina Burleigh
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
324
Publisher
New Word City, Inc.
ISBN #
12
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-opt...
Author
William Jones Rhees
Binding
Paperback
Pages
276
Publisher
University of Michigan Library
ISBN #
4
In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift―a half-million dollar bequest to establish a foundation in Washington "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The Smithsonian Institution, as it would be called, eventually grew into the largest museum an...
Author
Heather Ewing
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
432
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
ISBN #
1596910291
EAN Code
9781596910294
ISBN #
2
In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman, Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of social and intellectual history in the life and times of the man responsible for the creation of the United States' principal cultural institution, the Smithsonian.It was one of t...
Author
Nina Burleigh
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
320
Publisher
William Morrow
ISBN #
0060002417
EAN Code
9780060002411
ISBN #
18
Hardcover - 1965
Author
Leonard Carmichael
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
316
Publisher
Putnam with the Smithsonian Institution
ISBN #
3
Excerpt from James Smithson and His BequestThe materials for a biography of James Smithson are exceedingly scanty, and no life of him has ever been published. Efforts have several times been made by the Smithsonian Institution to procure facts and incidents relative to its founder, and during the pr...
Author
William J. Rhees
Binding
Paperback
Pages
282
Publisher
Forgotten Books
ISBN #
1330818008
EAN Code
9781330818008
ISBN #
16
In the mid-1830s, the United States learned that it was the beneficiary of a strange and unprecedented bequest. An Englishman named James Smithson, who had never set foot in the U.S., had left all his fortune to found in Washington "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among ...
Author
Heather Ewing
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
432
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
ISBN #
11
In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman, Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of social and intellectual history in the life and times of the man responsible for the creation of the United States' principal cultural institution, the Smithsonian.It was one of t...
Author
Nina Burleigh
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Harper Perennial
ISBN #
0060002425
EAN Code
9780060002428
ISBN #
1
James Smithson, FRS, M.A. (1764 27 June 1829) was a British mineralogist and chemist noted for having left a bequest in his will to the United States of ...
James Smithson, MA, FRS (5 June 1765 27 June 1829) was an English chemist and mineralogist. He was the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution.
ISBN #
8