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City in Time: Washington, D. C.
From the Capitol building, home to Congress, to the Gothic revival style Smithsonian Castle, Washington, D.C. is an intriguing city. It’s the home of countless historical sites, incredible architecture, and beautiful art and monuments. There’s something special to see at every turn, and this fascinating volume presents the very best, as it is now and as it was back then. Step into the Hirshhorn Museum, designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft to resemble “a large piece of functional sculpture.” Gaze at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. Visit D.C.’s spookiest places, including the perhaps haunted Hay-Adams Hotel. Every spread is both attractive and enlightening.
144 pages, Hardcover
First published May 6, 2008
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December 14, 2021
Features images of locations in the District when they were created and their status at the time of publication, also additional data. Insightful.
March 8, 2012
IRRESPONSIBLE PUBLISHING !
This illustrated [not especially well photographed] book, of scant text is to be avoided.
While there are a good number of factual errors, even worse are the errors by omission!
For some reason, the editors did not see fit to give dates for the pictures. However they certainly have managed to mismatch photos to text [for example,the wording about the Korean War Memorial is accompanied by photos [on two pages] of the U.S. Marine Memorial in Arlington.
Apparently published for 'remainder' tables, stay away from this book.
This illustrated [not especially well photographed] book, of scant text is to be avoided.
While there are a good number of factual errors, even worse are the errors by omission!
For some reason, the editors did not see fit to give dates for the pictures. However they certainly have managed to mismatch photos to text [for example,the wording about the Korean War Memorial is accompanied by photos [on two pages] of the U.S. Marine Memorial in Arlington.
Apparently published for 'remainder' tables, stay away from this book.
August 6, 2013
Had a good selection of feature locales in Washington, D.C., although, as another reviewer noted, not all photos matched the captions! I also (thanks to Scott Fuchs for noting this in his own review) would have liked to see dates and years accompanying both the old and the new photos... I thought the content was good. It was a very quick read in advance of my own trip to D.C.
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