Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Washington

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

Washington( )
Author: Bordewich, Fergus
ISBN:978-0-06-084238-3
Publication Date:Jul 2008
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Amistad
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $41.00
Book Description:

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 one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," a district that was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of slavery, and a target of unbridled land speculation--our nation's capital? In Washington, acclaimed and award-winning author Fergus M. Bordewich turns his eye to the...
More Description



Featured Books

Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Hardback: $17.00
The Book of Love
Link, Kelly
Hardback: $31.00
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Hardback: $20.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.