Author: Federal Writer's Project
Year Published: 1937
Year Printed: 1937
Date Acquired: April 27, 2019
Where Purchased: Capitol Hill Books, Washington, DC
Price Paid: $150
Read Status: Read (April 25, 2021)
Notes/Thoughts
- Probably way overpaid for this book and could've just got the one without the book jacket for $85 (still had map), but at least it's supporting independent bookstores in person (on Independent Bookstore Day, too) and maybe one day I still can complete the series buying them in person. Almost got a Rivers of America book, but put it back since it was a later 1960s one in that series and this has been my number one want for the American Guide series.
- "But the crises are not its own - it [Washington City] does no more than reflect (sometimes, it is true, with fringes of distortion) the advancing or retrograde movements of a country's civilization. Above and beneath its myriad illusive aspects, it is essentially the condensing-mirror of national conditions, sentiments and aspirations, the sounding-board of a national vox populi." - p.67
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