The Creation of Washington, D.C.: The Idea and Location of the American Capital by Kenneth R. Bowling
The Creation of Washington, D.C.: The Idea and Location of the American Capital
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Kenneth R. Bowling
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The Creation of Washington, D.C.: The Idea and Location of the American Capital

Kenneth R. Bowling

305 pages • first pub 1991 (view editions)

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Leaders of the American Revolution envisioned the United States as the next great world empire. George Washington and his allies, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, believed that the capital of that empire should be a commercial as well as politi...

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