Empire of mud
Subtitle: the secret history of Washington, DC
By: J.D.  Dickey
Publisher: Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780762787012
Subjects: History
Other titles: Secret history of Washington, DC
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Capital movers; title: The Capital archipelago; title: A plague of waters; title: A mechanic's guide to Washington City; title: Driving souls; title: The company they kept; title: Coming to the scratch; title: Illicit congress; title: Seeing the elephant; title: Suspicious characters; title: The fall of Washington City; title: A gilded cage; title: Epilogue: The sea of pavement.