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If asked to name my favorite book about the city, I would have to pick Margaret Leech’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history, Reveille in Washington, first published in 1941,

A breakdown from nervous strain and overwork in 1869 left him incapacitated for nearly a year. Yet the headlong life resumed. The museum building was doubled in size. He embarked on still another venture, around Cape Horn to California with a Coast Survey expedition, and returned this time with some one hundred thousand specimens. And in the final

Carlota was born in Venezuela in 1939. Her first career there was as a civil servant specialized in energy and innovation policy[34]. Later in life, she switched to academia, settling in the UK where she started to focus on the relationship between technological change and financial markets. Almost by coincidence, her only book to date, Technologic

The great days in Medora lasted all of three years, from 1883 to 1886. Nothing much had ever happened there before and nothing much has happened since, as the world judges these things. Though some ranchers survived the Marquis’s collapse and the winter of 1886-1887, Medora did not, and were it not for the château, the park and Harold Schafer’s com

He had, after all, an advantage that earlier transcontinental rail builders had lacked. Since they had built rapidly to secure their land grants, they had located their West Coast termini early in the process. In contrast, Hill had built his road slowly, developing its hinterlands as it went. Now, surveying his final link, he had the nice advantage

Truman Hunt was usually cool under pressure. But today was different. After more than six months of planning, it was almost time for the show to begin. He could hardly wait. The Igorrotes were going to be the talk of Coney Island. No, of the nation. Before they left the train, he gave them a pep talk. Truman was an enthusiastic, if sometimes inexac