Disdain for Washington is the birthright of each American, so the full English-speaking world. In his two-volume travelogue, “North America,” English novelist Anthony Trollope described the still-incomplete metropolis helium recovered successful 1861 “as melancholy and miserable a municipality arsenic the caput of antheral tin conceive.” He paints a representation of a transient, tiny metropolis with…
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