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Dream city: race, power, and the decline of Washington, D.C

By Tom , Jaffe , Harry;Sherwood

Book information

Publisher
Argo-Navis Author Services
Year
2014
ISBN
9780786755936, 9780786755943, 0786755946
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1541109 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
ARFLGAHISTORY--United States--State & Local--South (ALKYLAMSNCSCTNVAWV);Politics and government;Race relations;Racism;WV);Washington (D.C.)

Description

With a new afterword covering the two decades since its first publication, two of Washington, D.C.'s most respected journalists expose one of America's most tragic ironies: how the nation's capital, often a gleaming symbol of peace and hope, is the setting for vicious contradictions and devastating conflicts over race, class, and power. Jaffe and Sherwood have chillingly chronicled the descent of the District of Columbia?congressional hearings, gangland murders, the establishment of home rule and the inside story of Marion Barry's enigmatic dynasty and disgrace. Now their afterword narrates th.

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