Smithsonian stories
Subtitle: chronicle of a golden age, 1964-1984
By: Wilton S. Dillon ; with an introduction by Robert D. Sullivan
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New Brunswick (U.S.A.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781412854597
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: History; Biography; Officials and employees; Smithsonian Institution
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Foreword / by Robert Sullivan; title: Prologue / by Wilton S. Dillon; title: Part One. Curtain time, stages, characters; title: My Smithsonian beginning; title: Man and beast : two inquiries, 1969 and 1986; title: The cultural drama : identity and ferment; title: Our simply sensational salon : the South Tower; title: Savants and muses in the Castle; title: Part Two. Enrichments; title: Our French connection; title: Variations on Indian and Chinese themes; title: Space age on the ground; title: Play and inventiveness; title: New generations at the Smithsonian; title: Part Three. Interactions; title: Encountering the White House, Congress, and Judiciary; title: Owls and falcons; title: Imagining a museum of humankind; title: Elizabeth Taylor and Mr. Smithson's ghost; title: Linking Yves Klein and Marcel Mauss; title: Part Four. Commemorations; title: Celebrating Copernicus; title: Whither "STEM" and the liberal arts; title: Einstein redux; title: Pax Americana : 1976; title: Edinburgh 1984 : the enduring Scottish Enlightenment; title: Acknowledgments and epilogue; title: Appendices: [A] A harvest of Smithsonian contributions to knowledge; title: [B] Major symposia and participants.