(Download free pdf) Alexander Robey Shepherd: The Man Who Built the Nation's Capital
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| #1373594 in Books | imusti | 2016-09-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.90 x6.13l,.0 | File Name: 0821422502 | 248 pages | Ohio University Press
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Definitive Biography of the Man Responsible for the Building D.C.'s Post-Civil War Infrastructure|By JDM|One might expect this impeccably researched and elegantly written biography of Alexander Robey Shepherd to have been perhaps the work of a scholar holding an endowed chair at an Ivy League university. Wrong. This book is the culmination of a decades-long endeavor by a ret||
“Shepherd’s story, told [here] with skill and confidence, is at once the story of a great American character, with all his great achievements—bold, visionary, pragmatic, entrepreneurial; and notable flaws.… It’s also the st
With Alexander Robey Shepherd, John P. Richardson gives us the first full-length biography of his subject, who as Washington, D.C.’s, public works czar (1871–74) built the infrastructure of the nation’s capital in a few frenetic years after the Civil War. The story of Shepherd is also the story of his hometown after that cataclysm, which left the city with churned-up streets, stripped of its trees, and exhausted.
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