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S. Dillon Ripley was a courtly, determined, and hugely ambitious conservationist and cultural standard-bearer who led the Smithsonian Institution 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. Paralleling his career at the Smithsonian was Ripley’s lifelong work as an ornithologist, begun in New Guinea in the 1930s. During the war he was recruited to the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the modern CIA, and posted to Ceylon, where he ran agents who infiltrated Japanese-held Southeast Asia. In The Lives of Dillon Ripley, Roger D. Stone brings the story of this remarkable Renaissance man thrillingly to life.