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Physical description:
xxxviii, 370 pages ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Biography
History
Date:
2015
20th century
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Dedication -- Foreword / by Robert Sullivan -- Prologue / by Wilton S. Dillon -- Part One. Curtain time, stages, characters -- My Smithsonian beginning -- Man and beast : two inquiries, 1969 and 1986 -- The cultural drama : identity and ferment -- Our simply sensational salon : the South Tower -- Savants and muses in the Castle -- Part Two. Enrichments -- Our French connection -- Variations on Indian and Chinese themes -- Space age on the ground -- Play and inventiveness -- New generations at the Smithsonian -- Part Three. Interactions -- Encountering the White House, Congress, and Judiciary -- Owls and falcons -- Imagining a museum of humankind -- Elizabeth Taylor and Mr. Smithson's ghost -- Linking Yves Klein and Marcel Mauss -- Part Four. Commemorations -- Celebrating Copernicus -- Whither "STEM" and the liberal arts -- Einstein redux -- Pax Americana : 1976 -- Edinburgh 1984 : the enduring Scottish Enlightenment -- Acknowledgments and epilogue -- Appendices: [A] A harvest of Smithsonian contributions to knowledge -- [B] Major symposia and participants
