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Little Man in A Big Hurry: The Life of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Uranium King and Art Collector, by Gene Hirshhorn LePere

Filed Under United States By Contributing Editors on December 1, 2009

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Little Man in A Big Hurry: The Life of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Uranium King and Art Collector, by Gene Hirshhorn LePere. This is the remarkable story of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who donated the largest private art collection ever accumulated to the people of the United States. It is a rags-to-riches story of an immigrant Jewish boy, barely eight years old, who arrived in the United States from Latvia in 1907 and who, through oversized ambition, energy, smarts, luck, and determination, accumulated a multi-million dollar collection of contemporary art, now housed on the Mall in Washington, DC, in a building of the Smithsonian Museum which bears his name: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The years covered are (his ancestry) from 1797 to 1825 and from the birth of Joseph on August 11, 1899, to his death in August 1981. The book covers the Friedlander and Hirshhorn families. Price: $26.95 Order from Vantage Press, 419 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10016, (800) 882-3283; from The Hirshhorn Museum Gift Shop (203) 357-1429; or from The Bruce Museum (203) 869-0376. Amazon.com sells the book at a lower price. Book donated to the Hirshhorn Museum and the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut

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