WASHINGTON IN FOCUS
The Photo History of the Nation's Capital
by Phillip Bigler

ISBN 0-918339-07-3 * Paper * 144 pages* 
7 1/2 x 9 1/4* Bibliography * Index * $8.95

Highly acclaimed author Phillip Bigler combines over 100 historical photographs with a fast- paced and entertaining narrative to bring the reader not only the history of Washington, but the drive and spirit behind the history.  From John Plumb's Daguerreotype of the capital in 1846 to the opening of the Vietnam Memorial photographers have been using there special art to encapsulate the essence of the nation's capital.  From mud to marches, burials to baseball, trolleys to treaties, Sousa to slavery and canals to conventions, photographs remain the honest eye of history.

a delightfully backwards look at 'Washington City,' recommended highly...

--Booklist

An important and lively survey of Washington's history

--Bookwatch

Bigler bring his intimate knowledge of Washington to bear in this extended essay with photographs.

--The Washington Post

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