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Who? What? When? and Why? are the questions one wants to ask about
Washington DC during the time of the War of 1812. It was the new
national capital striving to find its rationale in its few public
buildings. It was a Seat of Government where a weak executive
failed to control a fractious legislature even while fighting at
its distant borders a war against the world's Great Power. It then
became itself a Seat of War. After its destruction and a peace
snatched out of the depths of defeat, there was a renewal of
national feeling. The more emphatic restatement of the city's
significance and reinstatement of its Public Buildings have
continued to reverberate in the history of the city and in our
national life. The outcomes of the war of 1812 have been unclear to
most. The impact of this "Second War of Independence," has been
particularly overlooked in the narrative of Washington's
development into today's flourishing city. Mark N. Ozer's new book
seeks to right that oversight. He argues compellingly that one of
the important outcomes of that war was to accentuate the role of
Washington, D.C. as the capital of the nation. Not only because of
the commitment by national leaders; the citizenry of the city
united to ensure the city's resurrection "like a Phoenix from the
ashes" as an invigorated capital. -- Donald Kennon, Vice-President
for Scholarship and Education, U.S. Capitol Historical Association
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