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With authority and insight supported by excellent research, Neil Harris narrates the politics and personalities, rivalries and backroom deals, glittering blockbusters and boosterism behind the transformation of the National Gallery from provincial latecomer to major force on the museum scene. A significant contribution to the history of the American museum by one of our leading historians. <br>--Andrew McClellan, author of The Art Museum from Boull e to Bilbao

Meticulously researched and thoughtfully written, Capital Culture places J. Carter Brown in his historical context and reveals the social, political, and economic issues he contended with during his long tenure at the National Gallery. Neil Harris also brings to life the way Brown used his rivalry with Tom Hoving and later Philippe de Montebello at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to animate the National Gallery and make it the cultural center of Washington, and for a time, the nation. -Glenn Lowry, director, MoMA

"""Meticulously researched and thoughtfully written, Capital Culture places J. Carter Brown in his historical context and reveals the social, political, and economic issues he contended with during his long tenure at the National Gallery. Neil Harris also brings to life the way Brown used his rivalry with Tom Hoving and later Philippe de Montebello at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to animate the National Gallery and make it the cultural center of Washington, and for a time, the nation."" -Glenn Lowry, director, MoMA"""

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Neil Harris is the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History and of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including The Artist in American Society; Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum; Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America; and The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age.

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