Off the Bookshelf: a fool's errand

Off the Bookshelf: a fool's errand

Lonnie Bunch is the founding director of The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. As the cover jacket says, he founded the museum with one staff person, one office (but no key) and a need to raise $500 million.  Sounds impossible, but what Mr. Bunch had and still has as the current Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is a passion for the subject and a vision that never changed…

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