The Lives of Dillon Ripley : Natural Scientist, Wartime Spy, and Pioneering Leader of the Smithsonian Institution /

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A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a "courtly, determined, hugely ambitious, energetic, funny, and colorful ornithologist, conservationist, and cultural standard-bearer" who led the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years, during its greatest period of growth. During hi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Stone, Roger D. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Ripley, S. Dillon > (Sidney Dillon), > 1913-2001.
Smithsonian Institution > Officials and employees > Biography.
Naturalists > United States > Biography.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Foreword / by Tom Lovejoy
  • Introduction
  • Growing up golden
  • Birds of many feathers
  • Asian and other adventures
  • Pleasantly busy in New Haven
  • Defining a new culture
  • Displaying the nation's art
  • Media ventures and scholarly triumph
  • Building Smithsonian U.
  • Waves of complaints
  • Science and conservation
  • Retiring the crown.

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