Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies)
“One of the most lively and engaging books now available about Washington's urban design, architecture and interior spaces... Capital Speculations  is the successful fruit of a cross-disciplinary approach to writing about place that draws on everything from literature to politics to paintings and maps... Capital Speculations has the potential to change several of the academic fields in which Luria is conversant.” —The Washington Post"Luria deftly conceptualizes the politics of circulation as expressed in roads, canals, and railroads, extending that concept to the cast-iron Capitol dome constructed during the Civil War, Whitman's nationalistic poetry, and Lincoln's unifying political rhetoric."—Journal of American History