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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association"
"Shortlisted for the Alice Award, Furthermore Grants in Publishing"
"Winner, Secretary’s Research Prize, Smithsonian Congress of Scholars"
"[A] rich and beautifully produced catalogue."
---Philip Kennicott, Washington Post"This handsome, beautifully illustrated, engagingly and perceptively written volume was published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition by the same name. . . . Chapter notes demonstrate Harvey's mastery of the primary materials and the sources that chronicle these developments and the secondary literature built on those sources . . . Essential." * Choice *
"[An] immersive volume . . . [
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States includes] lavishly reproduced portraits of Humboldt contemporaries such as Thomas Jefferson, period maps, animal studies and sculptures related to Humboldt’s life and times."
---Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal"[A] dense, engrossing project . . . [
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States includes]eight scholarly essays beautifully illustrated with paintings, artifacts, and maps. . . . An archetype of the 'public intellectual' bearing enormous, transformative importance, thoroughly considered in word and image." * Library Journal *
"[A] grandly executed, profusely illustrated volume."
---Edward Rothstein, Wall Street Journal"[A] magnificent book. . . . a book that begs to be read and reread."
---Laura Dassow Walls, Early American Literature
