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Find more info., search and price compare for Washington: How Slaves, Idealists, and Scoundrels Created the Nation's Capital by Fergus Bordewich Binding: Paperback, 400 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Weight: 0.84 pound Dimension: H: 1.1 x L: 8.03 x W: 5.28 inches ISBN 10: 0060842393 ISBN 13: 9780060842390 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
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 once described as a mere swamp 'producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size),' and which was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of slavery, and the target of unbridled land speculation our nation's capital? In Washington, acclaimed, award winning author Fergus M. Bordewich turns to the backroom deal making and shifting alliances among our Founding Fathers to find out, and in doing so pulls back the curtain on the lives of the slaves who actually built the city. The answers revealed in this eye opening book are not only surprising but also illuminate a story of unexpected triumph over a multitude of political and financial obstacles, including fraudulent real estate deals, overextended financiers, and management more apt for a banana republic than an emerging world power. In a page turning work that reveals the hidden and unsavory side to the nation's beginnings, Bordewich once again brings his novelist's eye to a little known chapter of American history. |
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