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

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

Nina Burleigh

298 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1829, a wealthy English naturalist named James Smithson left his library, mineral collection, and entire fortune to the United States of America, even though he had never visited the United States or known any Americans. Burleigh pieces togethe...

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