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The stranger and the statesman : James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the making of America's greatest museum, The Smithsonian
Title:
The stranger and the statesman : James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the making of America's greatest museum, The Smithsonian
Author:
Burleigh, Nina.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : William Morrow, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
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.
ISBN:
9780060002411
Format :
Book