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A history of the building of America's capital city through the dreams of French designer Pierre L'Enfant and the efforts of numerous workers.
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To judge from the colorful, hugely entertaining, irreverent history, it's a wonder Washington, D.C., got built at all. George Washington welcomed Congress's decisions to move from Philadelphia to the Potomac, but just before his death in 1799, the first president vented his spleen at nine years of inept financing, lawsuits, builders' inflated costs, real estate sharks' greed and other roadblocks that impeded the capital's developement. Obstinate French architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant jockeyed for total control of the city's construction, spreading confusion in his wake. His successor, Samuel Blodget, an ingratiating Bostonian, frittered away seven years trying to salvage a $350,000 lottery he organized to finance an unfinished hotel. Land speculator Thomas Jefferson, charmed by the capital's rural character, cultivated more botanists than he did investors in the city. Arnebeck draws on reams of previously untapped archival material for this exhaustive year-by-year chronicle. Publishers Weekly
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Bob Arnebeck has been writing about Washington history for fifteen years. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Leslie Kuter, and their son, Ottoleo.
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- PublisherUniversity Press of America
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0819178322
- ISBN 13 9780819178329
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages701
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