Katharine Graham's Washington

"These 800-plus pages hold too many broadly generalized, somewhat bromidic observations about a subject universally acknowledged to have its limits: the nature, culture and very rich hours of Washington, compared with other cities...Go for the nuggets that are here....Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration and funeral are movingly evoked. The articulate wife of a World War I Texas congressman describes the ravages of the flu epidemic of 1918. Several contributors describe the city's enormous black population in its ''era of American apartheid,'' in Robert Kaiser's phrase--ignored, on the one hand, and, on the other, the reason that Washington was denied self-government for so long."Graham, Katharine is the author of 'Katharine Graham's Washington' with ISBN 9781400030590 and ISBN 1400030595.