The Smithsonian Institution (novel)
- The Smithsonian Institution (novel)
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name = The Smithsonian Institution
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author = Gore Vidal
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Little, Brown
release_date = 15 October 1998
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 272 p. (hardback edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-316-64504-4 (hardback edition)
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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.
Gore Vidal has claimed that this was the inspiration for the 2006 film Night at the Museum. The film was in fact based on the 1993 children's book The Night at the Museum
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