How Slaves, Idealists, and Scoundrels Created the Nation's Capital
by
Fergus Bordewich
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
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 strategically indefensible, captive to the politics...