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Empire of mud : the secret history of Washington, DC

Call Number

  • 975.3 D551 (CEN)

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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.

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