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Washington: The Making of the American Capital
Fergus Bordewich
Amistad
May 2008
On Sale: May 6, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 0060842385
EAN: 9780060842383
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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, acclaimed and award-winning author Fergus M.
Bordewich turns his eye to the backroom deal making and
shifting alliances between our Founding Fathers and in
doing so pulls back the curtain on the lives of slaves who
actually built the city. The answers revealed in this eye-
opening book are not only surprising and exciting but also
illuminate a story of unexpected triumph over a multitude
of political and financial obstacles, including fraudulent
real estate speculation, overextended financiers, and
management more apt for a "banana republic" than an
emerging world power. In this page-turning work that reveals the hidden and
somewhat unsavory side of the nation's beginnings,
Bordewich, once again, brings his novelist's sensibility to
a little-known chapter in American history.
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