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Author Bordewich, Fergus M.

Title Washington [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] the making of the American capital / Fergus M. Bordewich.

Publication Info. Old Saybrook : Tantor Media, 2008.
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Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1427063~S1
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Playing Time 124733
System Details Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 183889 KB; MP3 file size: 360553 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Performer Read by Richard Allen.
Note Duration: 12:47:33.
Summary 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", award-winning author Fergus M. Bordewich turns his eye to the backroom deal making and shifting alliances among our Founding Fathers and in so doing pulls back the curtain on the lives of the slaves who actually built the city.
Subject Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- Capital and capitol -- History -- 18th century.
City planning -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 18th century. -- Sound recordings.
Washington (D.C.) -- Politics and government -- To 1878.
Genre Audiobooks.
Added Author Allen, Richard.
Tantor Media.
Other Form: Original 1400137446 (OCoLC)312116070
ISBN 9781400127443 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
1400127440 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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