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Literary Capital: A Washington Reader
By Christopher Sten (Editor), Abigail Adams (Contribution by), Christian Hines (Contribution by), Washington Irving (Contribution by), George Watterson (Contribution by), Margaret Bayard Smith (Contribution by), James Fenimore Cooper (Contribution by), Frances Trollope (Contribution by), Alexis de Tocqueville (Contribution by), Charles Dickens (Contribution by), Herman Melville (Contribution by), Black Hawk (Contribution by), John Greenleaf Whittier (Contribution by), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Contribution by), William Wells Brown (Contribution by), Solomon Northup (Contribution by), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contribution by), Louisa May Alcott (Contribution by), Walt Whitman (Contribution by), Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (Contribution by), Upton Sinclair (Contribution by), Mark Twain (Contribution by), Charles Dudley Warner (Contribution by), John William DeForest (Contribution by), Bret Harte (Contribution by), Frederick Douglass (Contribution by), Henry Adams (Contribution by), Frances Hodgson Burnett (Contribution by), Gertrude Atherton (Contribution by), Booker T. Washington (Contribution by), Henry James (Contribution by), David Graham Phillips (Contribution by), Anna Cooper (Contribution by), Paul Laurence Dunbar (Contribution by), Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (Contribution by), Mary Church Terrell (Contribution by), W. E. B. Du Bois (Contribution by), Edward Christopher Williams (Contribution by), Alain Locke (Contribution by), Langston Hughes (Contribution by), Ralph Ellison (Contribution by), Mario Bencastro (Contribution by), Sinclair Lewis (Contribution by), Jean Toomer (Contribution by), Willa Cather (Contribution by), Samuel Hopkins Adams (Contribution by), John Dos Passos (Contribution by), Louis J. Halle (Contribution by), Marita Golden (Contribution by), Edward Jones (Contribution by), Thomas Mallon (Contribution by), Andrew Holleran (Contribution by), Sterling A. Brown (Contribution by), Allen Tate (Contribution by), Archibald MacLeish (Contribution by), Elizabeth Bishop (Contribution by), Allen Ginsberg (Contribution by), Denise Levertov (Contribution by), May Miller (Contribution by), Reed Whittemore (Contribution by), E. Miller (Contribution by), Allen Drury (Contribution by), Gore Vidal (Contribution by), Norman Mailer (Contribution by), Ward Just (Contribution by), Mary McCarthy (Contribution by), Robert Coover (Contribution by), Joseph Heller (Contribution by), Susan Richards Shreve (Contribution by), George Pelecanos (Contribution by), Joan Didion (Contribution by)
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By Christopher Sten (Editor), Abigail Adams (Contribution by), Christian Hines (Contribution by), Washington Irving (Contribution by), George Watterson (Contribution by), Margaret Bayard Smith (Contribution by), James Fenimore Cooper (Contribution by), Frances Trollope (Contribution by), Alexis de Tocqueville (Contribution by), Charles Dickens (Contribution by), Herman Melville (Contribution by), Black Hawk (Contribution by), John Greenleaf Whittier (Contribution by), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Contribution by), William Wells Brown (Contribution by), Solomon Northup (Contribution by), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contribution by), Louisa May Alcott (Contribution by), Walt Whitman (Contribution by), Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (Contribution by), Upton Sinclair (Contribution by), Mark Twain (Contribution by), Charles Dudley Warner (Contribution by), John William DeForest (Contribution by), Bret Harte (Contribution by), Frederick Douglass (Contribution by), Henry Adams (Contribution by), Frances Hodgson Burnett (Contribution by), Gertrude Atherton (Contribution by), Booker T. Washington (Contribution by), Henry James (Contribution by), David Graham Phillips (Contribution by), Anna Cooper (Contribution by), Paul Laurence Dunbar (Contribution by), Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (Contribution by), Mary Church Terrell (Contribution by), W. E. B. Du Bois (Contribution by), Edward Christopher Williams (Contribution by), Alain Locke (Contribution by), Langston Hughes (Contribution by), Ralph Ellison (Contribution by), Mario Bencastro (Contribution by), Sinclair Lewis (Contribution by), Jean Toomer (Contribution by), Willa Cather (Contribution by), Samuel Hopkins Adams (Contribution by), John Dos Passos (Contribution by), Louis J. Halle (Contribution by), Marita Golden (Contribution by), Edward Jones (Contribution by), Thomas Mallon (Contribution by), Andrew Holleran (Contribution by), Sterling A. Brown (Contribution by), Allen Tate (Contribution by), Archibald MacLeish (Contribution by), Elizabeth Bishop (Contribution by), Allen Ginsberg (Contribution by), Denise Levertov (Contribution by), May Miller (Contribution by), Reed Whittemore (Contribution by), E. Miller (Contribution by), Allen Drury (Contribution by), Gore Vidal (Contribution by), Norman Mailer (Contribution by), Ward Just (Contribution by), Mary McCarthy (Contribution by), Robert Coover (Contribution by), Joseph Heller (Contribution by), Susan Richards Shreve (Contribution by), George Pelecanos (Contribution by), Joan Didion (Contribution by)
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Washington, D.C., has long been a magnet for writers and an object of interest and fascination to essayists, novelists, and poets. Literary Capital offers a compelling portrait of the city through the work of seventy authors ranging from early Americans such as Abigail Adams and Washington Irving to contemporaries such as Edward P. Jones and Joan Didion.
Arranged by both period and theme, this anthology begins with the founding of Washington in 1800 and extends through the early twenty-first...
Arranged by both period and theme, this anthology begins with the founding of Washington in 1800 and extends through the early twenty-first...
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