Washington: How Slaves, Idealists, and Scoundrels Created the Nation's Capital by Fergus Bordewich

Washington: How Slaves, Idealists, and Scoundrels Created the Nation's Capital

Fergus Bordewich

400 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history
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Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.--a place once described as a mere swamp producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size), and which was strategica...

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