Category - Non Fiction / History

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Excellent

Listed - 8 months ago

Wishes - 2

Ships From - New York

Est. Publication Date - Oct 2003

The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum: The Smithsonian

Publisher Description

A portrait of the naturalist who founded the Smithsonian Institute notes the fierce political and interpersonal battles that nearly prevented the museum's establishment and recounts the intervention o...