
Author/Contributor(s): | Abbott, Carl |
Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press |
Date: | 06/28/1999 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
In an exploration of the many identities Washington has taken on over time, Carl Abbott examines the ways in which the city's regional orientation and national symbolism have been interpreted by novelists and business boosters, architects and blues artists, map makers and politicians. Each generation of residents and visitors has redefined Washington, he says, but in ways that have utilized or preserved its past. The nation's capital is a city whose history lives in its neighborhoods, people, and planning, as well as in its monuments and museums.