A History of the City of Washington
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A History of the City of Washington: Its Men and Institutions A History of the Capital City must be, to some extent, a history of the nation itself. Here are centered the three powerful, coordinate branches of republican government. Hence emanate the laws, their far-reaching interpretation, and the final judgments upon appeal which is the right of the humblest citizen. Not strange, therefore, is it to find that many writers, attracted by the history of the men who have made the State and by the interest attached to great questions of national importance, in attempting to write a history of the City of Washington, have failed to bring out those details which are of the city only. Irresistible temptations have led them too far into the field of constitutional history on the one side, or, on the other, into the no less interesting and, indeed, more thrilling accounts of military operations, of victories and defeats, "of the times that tried men´s souls," of the foreign and internecine strifes that have cemented in blood the latest and most glorious experiment of self-government by the people. The real history of the city itself is thus frequently lost sight of. Many books about Washington have been written; yet its history remains in fragmentary shape. No claim is here made that this is a complete, comprehensive history of the City of Washington. Only a small part of what pertains thereto - the subject headings, as it were - could be included within the limits of the present work. For this, however, the author claims some merit of arrangement - a setting up of guide posts to mark the periods when the more important events have occurred: an explanation of their causes and their results; a chronological array of facts having a direct bearing upon the growth and development of the city from the period when its location was first mentioned in the halls of Congress to the present time: a topical arrangement of the most important architectural and landscape features, the historical monuments and memorials, the storehouses of learning, the great museums of art and archaeology; some account of the statesmen, jurists, financiers, architects, artists, sculptors and business men who have played their part in the making or the beautifying of the city; an arrangement whereby one who may be interested in any particular features of its material or artistic progress may find such grouped together. Historical accuracy, above all, has been the aim in every line that has been written. Dates and facts have been carefully verified, and where conflicting testimony of contemporary writers has seemed irreconcilable, the evidence of both has been given for the judgment of the reader. The biographical sketches of which this work is in large part composed, are the work of a corps of competent writers, and so far, at least, as they are of the present generation, may be considered autobiographical, since no fact or date is given that has not been personally authenticated. The value of such a work, it will readily appear, must increase as time goes on, until it becomes a veritable treasure house of information for future historians and genealogists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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