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The stranger and the statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the making of America's greatest museum, The Smithsonian
The stranger and the statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the making of America's greatest museum, The Smithsonian
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Burleigh, Nina
Publisher
William Morrow
Publication Date
c2003
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1st ed.
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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
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Adams, John Quincy
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
History
Smithson, James
Smithson, James, 1765-1829
Smithsonian Institution -- History
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9780060002411
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