Washington: The Making of the American Capital

Fergus M. Bordewich

Jun 2008 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Richard Allen

About this audiobook

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?

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Double Jeopardy

About the author

Fergus M. Bordewich is the author of several books, among them Washington: The Making of the American Capital; Bound for Canaan; and America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history.

Richard Allen is a five-time Audie-nominated narrator whose work has been acknowledged on the Best Audiobooks Lists for Audiofile and Library Journal.