Through a Fiery Trial Building Washington, 1790-1800

Historians have dismissed the ten years it took to ready the new capital as nothing more than man's inability to tame a a swamp. In a brilliant narrative Bob Arnebeck shows how with slave axe-men, lawyers' writs, and speculators' greed a hilly, well wooded paradise was turned into a land of stumps ruts, shacks, and isolated mansions. The stories of the slaves and workers are a last told.Arnebeck, Bob is the author of 'Through a Fiery Trial Building Washington, 1790-1800', published 0009 under ISBN 9780819178329 and ISBN 0819178322.