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The Lives of Dillon Ripley Natural Scientist, Wartime Spy, & Pioneering Leader of the Smithsonian Institution

Biography / Memoir
By: Roger D Stone(Author), Tom Lovejoy(Foreword By)
255 pages, 15 plates with 18 b/w photos
The Lives of Dillon Ripley
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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 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.

Contents

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

Acknowledgments
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Biography

Roger D. Stone is a former correspondent and bureau chief for Time magazine, former president of the Center for Inter-American Relations, director and president of the Sustainable Development Institute, and a board member of the World Wildlife Fund, where he served with Dillon Ripley. He is the author of six previous books. He lives in Washington, DC.

Biography / Memoir
By: Roger D Stone(Author), Tom Lovejoy(Foreword By)
255 pages, 15 plates with 18 b/w photos
Media reviews

"Stone has produced a riveting biography of the man who held for two decades 'the world's top cultural job.' He shows how Ripley navigated the period's mood swings with numerous firsts, such as reaching multiracial crowds with the Folklife Festival."
– Stephen H. Grant, author of Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger

"Dillon Ripley, a star in the firmament of twentieth-century scholars and naturalists, was for twenty years an imaginatively effective secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Roger Stone, one of a host of talented friends and admirers, has written the memoir that Dillon Ripley, because of illness, could not complete [...] Stone's admirably relentless scholarship celebrates just how much fun it could be 'to go for a walk with Ripley,' as observed by one of Dillon Ripley's contemporaries."
– George Woodwell, founder of the Woods Hole Research Center and former chairman for the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund

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