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The Stranger and the Statesman (2003) (edit title/settings)

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

by Nina Burleigh (Author) (edit contributors)

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In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman , Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of social and intellectual history in the life and times of the man responsible for the creation of the United States' principal cultural institution, the Smithsonian. It... read more

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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL did not spend the Christmas season of 1903 in the festive tradition.

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  1. Nina Burleigh (Author)

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