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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