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Empire of mud : the secret history of Washington, DC / J.D. Dickey.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection F197 .D53 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickey, Jeff.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Washington (D.C.)--History.
- Washington (D.C.).
- History.
- Washington (D.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Secret history of Washington, DC
- Place of Publication:
- Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2014]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0762787015
- 9780762787012
- OCLC:
- 870987196
- Publisher Number:
- 99960135038
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