Smithsonian Stories
Chronicle of a Golden Age, 1964-1984
Why is the Smithsonian more than the Nation's Attic? Or more than a museum complex? As Wilton S. Dillon shows, the Smithsonian came to be the institution we know today under the forty-year tutelage of Sun King S. Dillon Ripley. Ripley aspired to reinvent the Smithsonian as a great university--with museums. Although little understood by the public at large, it began as a basic research center. The Smithsonian remains a key contributor to the world of higher learning and functions diplomatically as the ministry of culture for the United States. Dillon provides backstage insights into Ripley's quest for the wholeness of knowledge. He describes…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4128-5459-7
- EAN: 9781412854597
- Produktnummer: 16348831
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 408 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 703 g
- Gewicht: 703
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Wilton S. Dillon is senior scholar emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, USA. He served as president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York, USA.
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