A Washington journalist tells the story of the capital, from the young surveyor’s vision and the government’s years of temporary lodgings to the building of the Capitol and the city of the 1870s. She takes readers inside and outside the Capitol, into its society and offices, and the volume closes with an account of President Garfield’s life and death.
A vivid nineteenth-century portrait of Washington by one of its sharpest female observers. Download the free EPUB.