The Smithsonian Institution (novel)

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The Smithsonian Institution
First edition cover
Author Gore Vidal
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Little, Brown
Released 15 October 1998
Media Type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 272 p. (hardback edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-316-64504-4 (hardback edition)


For other uses, see Smithsonian (disambiguation).

Gore Vidal's novel The Smithsonian Institution is a fictional account of the adventures of "T." (a thinly-veiled version of Vidal's boyhood lover Jimmy Trimble) as he helps a group of scientists in the basement of the Smithsonian create the neutron bomb, and encounters historical figures such as President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Grover Cleveland.