| Through a Fiery Trial Contributor(s): Arnebeck, Bob (Author) |
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ISBN: 1568330278 ISBN-13: 9781568330273 Publisher: Madison Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1994 Annotation: Historians have dismissed the ten years it took to ready the new capital as nothing more than man's inability to tame a swamp. In a brilliant narrative Bob Arnebeck shows how with slave axe-men, lawyers' writs, and speculators' greed a hilly, well wooded paradise was turned into a land of stumps, ruts, shacks, and isolated mansions.The stories of slaves and workers are at last told. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 975.3 |
| Physical Information: 1.55" H x 5.16" W x 8.18" (1.72 lbs) 701 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This is the true story about how Washington, D.C. became the nation's capital. Arnebeck uncovers unknown information and chronicles the building of the city unlike anyone else. |