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Lives of Dillon Ripley : Natural Scientist, Wartime Spy, and Pioneering Leader of the Smithsonian Institution by Roger D. Stone (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDartmouth College
ISBN-101611686563
ISBN-139781611686562
eBay Product ID (ePID)234331936
Product Key Features
Book TitleLives of Dillon Ripley : Natural Scientist, Wartime Spy, and Pioneering Leader of the Smithsonian Institution
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCultural Heritage, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, Environmentalists & Naturalists
Publication Year2017
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorRoger D. Stone
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight16.8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-001278
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal508.092
Table Of ContentForeword, 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 * Acknowledgments * Chronology * Notes * Bibliography * Index
SynopsisA 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 his watch, from 1964 to 1984, the SI added eight new museums and seven new research centers and began publication of the Smithsonian magazine. It was Ripley's vision that transformed "the nation's attic" from a dusty archive to a vibrant educational and cultural institution, just as he had transformed Yale's Peabody museum before it. Prior to his career at the SI, and running parallel with it for the rest of his life, was Ripley's work as an ornithologist, begun in New Guinea in the 1930s, continued through his PhD from Harvard in 1943, and culminating in his landmark thirty-year project documenting the bird life of India. His lifelong passion for ornithology led him to positions of leadership in worldwide nature conservation. In the midst of these endeavors he was recruited in 1944 to the Office of Strategic Services, a Yalie club at the outset that became the forerunner of the modern CIA. Posted to Ceylon, he recruited and ran agents who reported from and infiltrated Japanese-held Southeast Asia. Roger D. Stone worked with Ripley on the board of the World Wildlife Fund. He has access to the Ripley family's archives and photos, as well as to the voluminous archives at the Smithsonian and the National Archives, and to over forty hours of transcribed interviews, conducted with Ripley at the Smithsonian.
LC Classification NumberQH31.R55S76 2017
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