Washington: A History of Our National City, by Tom Lewis
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Washington: A History of Our National City, by Tom Lewis
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On January 24, 1791, President George Washington chose the site for the young nation’s capital: ten miles square, it stretched from the highest point of navigation on the Potomac River, and encompassed the ports of Georgetown and Alexandria. From the moment the federal government moved to the District of Columbia in December 1800, Washington has been central to American identity and life. Shaped by politics and intrigue, poverty and largess, contradictions and compromises, Washington has been, from its beginnings, the stage on which our national dramas have played out.In Washington, the historian Tom Lewis paints a sweeping portrait of the capital city whose internal conflicts and promise have mirrored those of America writ large. Breathing life into the men and women who struggled to help the city realize its full potential, he introduces us to the mercurial French artist who created an ornate plan for the city “en grande”; members of the nearly forgotten anti-Catholic political party who halted construction of the Washington monument for a quarter century; and the cadre of congressmen who maintained segregation and blocked the city’s progress for decades. In the twentieth century Washington’s Mall and streets would witness a Ku Klux Klan march, the violent end to the encampment of World War I “Bonus Army” veterans, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and the painful rebuilding of the city in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination.“It is our national center,” Frederick Douglass once said of Washington, DC; “it belongs to us, and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and its destiny.” Interweaving the story of the city’s physical transformation with a nuanced account of its political, economic, and social evolution, Lewis tells the powerful history of Washington, DC—the site of our nation’s highest ideals and some of our deepest failures.
Washington: A History of Our National City, by Tom Lewis- Amazon Sales Rank: #80293 in Books
- Brand: Basic Books
- Published on: 2015-10-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.64" w x 6.13" l, 1.80 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 560 pages
Review Wall Street Journal“[Washington is] an engagingly written, panoramic chronicle of the nation’s capital.”Washington Post“[Washington] is a remarkably amiable tale for a city that has seen so much trouble and conflict…Lewis succeeds in showing us the human face of Washington; and for Washington, too often perceived as faceless, that’s achievement enough.Open Letters Monthly“Lewis is an excellent, comprehensive guide to DC’s fraught history, providing fast-paced but thoroughly-researched accounts of wars, riots, congresses and presidents… Washington takes the torch from many very good earlier such books and carries it forward into the 21st century.”Publishers Weekly“The most reliable and useful one-volume history of the U.S. capital to date... Deftly written and enhanced by fitting illustrations, some of them rare and obscure, the book chronicles the city’s vexed experience as a representatives’ and speculators’ playpen as well as the site of unrepresented American citizen’s lives.”Library Journal“A winning addition to municipal historiography. Recommended for scholars and students of U.S. history, political science, and African American studies; urban planners; and all libraries.”Washingtonian“Washington traces the anti-democratic history of the capital of the world’s biggest democracy.”Kirkus“Lewis explains the character of the city, how it developed, the dastardly building mistakes, and how a few particular characters helped define it. Those who enjoy the city will enjoy this book.”Kenneth T. Jackson, Barzun Professor of History, Columbia University“Tom Lewis captures Washington, D.C.’s virtues and vices, and aspirations and realities in this elegant and accessible history. He weaves cultural, social, and political threads into an insightful narrative full of human voices.”Geoffrey C. Ward, author of The Roosevelts: An Intimate History“From George Washington to Richard Nixon, Marian Anderson to Marion Barry, Tom Lewis’s Washington vividly demonstrates that the human history of our nation’s capital mirrors both the best and the worst in us.”Ken Burns“Tom Lewis has written a comprehensive and intimate portrait of our National Capital. It is a vivid example of the best kind of history: filled with fascinating characters and details, and suffused with issues that seem all too contemporary. Bravo!”John Lukacs, author of Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture“A most superbly written history of a very difficult subject, since the history of Washington has been the strangest one of all the great capital cities of the world.”
About the Author Tom Lewis is professor emeritus of English at Skidmore College. The author of four books, including The Hudson, he lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Disappointing By E Pluribus Unum This ambitious volume aims to update Constance Green's extraordinary 1963 history of Washington. Lewis is a great storyteller, but he comes up far short -- this book is no match for Green. Lewis tells little that is new to students of Washington history. He retells familiar stories and spends an inordinate amount of time on the 18th and 19th centuries. The post-World War II city gets all of two chapters, a stunning oversight given how much has happened in D.C. in the past half century. If you don't know anything about D.C., this might be a nice introduction to the origins of the city, but if you know something about the city or you want to learn about the city since World War II your time would be better spent reading something else.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A Good and Complete History of D.C. By Amazon Customer As a native Washingtonian, I thoroughly enjoyed this history. It begins with the initial planning in the 18th century to the opening of Metro in 1976.My only caveat is that Professor Lewis is not a Washingtonian, so when I got to the last chapter I was familiar enough with the subject beginning with the riots of 1968 to the above mentioned Metro, to spot some errors and matters that could be argued against. Specifically:He misspells the name of a Md. congressman Gilbert GudeHe calls Columbia Heights, Cleveland Heights, though the area he is talking about is most likely in neither, but in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood.He speaks of Tacoma Park (the wrong Washington) when he means either the town of Takoma Park, Md. or the Takoma neighborhood of NW DC, Whichever he means, its misspelled..He refer to the hotel in which Marion Barry was arrested as "seedy." I don't think that's a fair representation of this downtown hotel which is now a Weston.Metro is referred to as "the first significant subway built anywhere in the [U.S.] after World War II. BART beat it by a couple of years.None of this will matter to most readers. Overall this is a complete history well worth reading. Its surprising how few people really know much about Washington, D.C. once they leave the mall and the museums..
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Overview of Washington DC By Brian Lewis This is an enjoyable general history of the nation's capital for the lay reader. The author Tom Lewis (as far as i know we are not related) covers everything from George Washington's vision for the city up to contemporary times. I think he does a particularly good job of giving one a feeling for how it was to be in the city at various times in its history. And Lewis deserves credit for going a good job addressing race issues as experienced by the predominantly black population of Washington DC. I think this is the book's greatest strength, as it is in this area that the book best shows how the city mirrored the nation. On the downside, the book does not have a compelling character, except perhaps George Washington in the beginning, but even he does not come alive in the book the way he did in Ron Chernow's biography Recommended
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