Book
Empire of mud : the secret history of Washington, DC
Publication Information
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2014]
Physical Description
xviii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents
- Introduction: Capital movers
- The Capital archipelago
- A plague of waters
- A mechanic's guide to Washington City
- Driving souls
- The company they kept
- Coming to the scratch
- Illicit congress
- Seeing the elephant
- Suspicious characters
- The fall of Washington City
- A gilded cage
- Epilogue: The sea of pavement.