Foreword by Robert D. Sullivan
Prologue
Part One Curtain Time, Stages, Characters
1 My Smithsonian Beginning
2 Man and Beast: Two Inquiries, 1969 and 1986
3 The Cultural Drama: Identity and Ferment
4 Our Simply Sensational Salon: The South Tower
5 Savants and Muses in the Castle
Part Two Enrichments
6 Our French Connection
7 Variations on Indian and Chinese Themes
8 Space Age on the Ground
9 Play and Inventiveness
10 New Generations at the Smithsonian
Part Three Interactions
11 Encountering the White House, Congress, and Judiciary
12 Owls and Falcons
13 Imagining a Museum of Humankind
14 Elizabeth Taylor and Mr. Smithson's Ghost
15 Linking Yves Klein and Marcel Mauss
Part Four Commemorations
16 Celebrating Copernicus
17 Whither "STEM" and the Liberal Arts?
18 Einstein Redux
19 Pax Americana: 1976
20 Edinburgh 1984: The Enduring Scottish Enlightenment
Acknowledgments and Epilogue
Appendices A Harvest of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge
Major Symposia and Participants
Index
