James H. Billington

Why Is James H. Billington Influential?

According to Wikipedia, James Hadley Billington was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions. He served as the 13th Librarian of Congress after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, and his appointment was approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate. He retired as Librarian on September 30, 2015.

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James H. Billington's Published Works

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The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture (1966) (172)
Roots of the Revolution (1961) (90)
LESSONS from history. (1952) (85)
Russia in Search of Itself (2004) (47)
Intellectuals, the Pursuit of Power, and the Good Society@@@The Truants: Adventures among the Intellectuals.@@@Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith. (1982) (46)
Images of Muscovy (1962) (28)
Mikhailovsky and Russian populism (1959) (21)
The Crisis of Legitimacy (1976) (16)
The Intelligentsia and the Religion of Humanity (1960) (10)
Six Views of the Russian Revolution (1966) (9)
Changes in Mao Zedong's Attitude toward the Indochina War, 1949-1973 (2002) (9)
Orthodoxy and Democracy (2007) (8)
The cross and the sickle (1995) (8)
Russia Transformed Breakthrough to Hope (1992) (8)
Realism and Vision in American Foreign Policy (1986) (7)
Humanizing the Information Revolution (2001) (6)
American public libraries in the information age : Constant purpose in changing times (1998) (5)
The Librarian of Congress (1993) (4)
The Fab (2021) (4)
The Search for a Modern Russian Identity (1992) (4)
A Symposium: What Future Directions for Academic Exchange? (1987) (3)
Here Today, Here Tomorrow: The Imperative of Collections Security. (1996) (3)
The Face of Russia: Anguish, Aspiration, and Achievement in Russian Culture (1998) (2)
The Moral Imperative of Conservation (1988) (2)
RUSSIA BETWEEN EAST AND WEST : THE 200-YEAR-OLD DILEMMA (2)
Russia transformed : breakthrough to hope : Moscow, August 1991 (1992) (2)
Pioneers (A Library of Congress Book) (1999) (1)
RELIGION AND RUSSIA'S FUTURE (2009) (1)
Effective management of library and information services (1990) (1)
The Intellectual and Cultural Dimensions of International Relations: Present Ironies and Future Possibilities (1992) (1)
Three Views of Revolution (1985) (1)
The Renaissance of the Russian Intelligentsia (1957) (1)
Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the Information Age (2017) (1)
Force and Counterforce in Eastern Europe (1968) (1)
The Crisis of Communism and the Future of Freedom (1991) (1)
Sir Isaiah Berlin (2006) (1)
The Horizon History of Russia@@@The Horizon Book of the Arts of Russia (1971) (0)
Russia at the Dawn of the Modern Age. George Vernadsky (1961) (0)
An Interview with James Billington (2006) (0)
National Policy on Permanent Papers--Second Report (1993) (0)
The Church in the World: Unexpected Joy (1995) (0)
Cyril Black (1990) (0)
The Modern Library and Global Democracy (2015) (0)
Evolutionary Road (2020) (0)
The Library of Congrss's National Digital Library (1995) (0)
Accession 98-154 Records, 1968-1990 (1968) (0)
Library Services and Construction Act: Testimonies (1994): Speech 10 (1994) (0)
Roll Model (2019) (0)
To the Editor of the American Historical Review (1965) (0)
Record Unit 275 Records, 1969-1979 and undated (1969) (0)
Letter from James H. Billington, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to Joshua Lederberg (1974) (0)
James Hadley Billington, Commencement Speaker , 1982 (1982) (0)
Christianity in the USSR (1980) (0)
Other Areas (2005) (0)
Neglected Figures and Features in the Rise of the Raskol (1975) (0)
ASUM SENATE TALLY SHEET SENATE MEMBERS PRZEMEK BARTKIEWICZ (2013) (0)
Smart Cell (2020) (0)
Ultimate Questions; An Anthology of Modern Russian Religious Thought, Edited by Alexander Schmemann. 310 pp. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965. $6.95 (1966) (0)
In Lincoln's Hand: His Original Manuscripts with Commentary by Distinguished Americans (2009) (0)
The west's stake in Russia's future☆ (1997) (0)
Books and the World. Center for the Book Viewpoint Series No. 22. (1988) (0)
Revolution and Its Discontents: The Revolutionary Faith in the Modern World (1981) (0)
Snow and Tell (2020) (0)
Purpose in the university (1971) (0)
Muscovy and the Ukraine: From the Pereiaslavl Agreement to the Truce of Andrusovo, 1654–1667. By C. Bickford O'Brien. [University of California Publications in History, Volume LXXIV.] (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1963. Pp. vi, 138. $3.00.) (1964) (0)
STEAM PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION FOR BREWING (1945) (0)
Virtue : public and private : essays by James H. Billington ... [et al.] ; edited and with a foreword by Richard John Neuhaus (1986) (0)
Before the revolution : St. Petersburg in photographs, 1890-1914 (1991) (0)
Chapter 12. The Modern Library and Global Democracy (2015) (0)
Ambitious Goals (2020) (0)

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