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The stranger and the statesman : James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the making of America's greatest museum, The Smithsonian / Nina Burleigh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burleigh, Nina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smithson, James, 1765-1829.
- Smithson, James.
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
- Adams, John Quincy.
- Smithsonian Institution--History.
- Smithsonian Institution.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 298 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow, [2003]
- Summary:
- Combining the charming eccentricity of "The Professor and the Madman" with the brilliant insight of "Founding Brothers," this is a riveting biography of James Smithson, a little-known scientist, and his incomparable legacy: the Smithsonian.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The body snatchers
- 2. The duke and the widow
- 3. Nobody's child
- 4. Choosing science
- 5. Discoveries and revolutions
- 6. The gift
- 7. 105 sacks of gold
- 8. "A rattlesnake's fang"
- 9. For the increase and diffusion of knowledge
- 10. The Smithson mystery
- Notes
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-298).
- ISBN:
- 0060002417
- OCLC:
- 52431023
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