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A song to my city : Washington, DC /

As a third-generation Washingtonian, Carol Lancaster experienced the city like few others. The first of her family to attend college, she was an undergraduate at Georgetown and earned a PhD at the London School of Economics. After serving in the Department of State in the late 1970s and early 1980s,...

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Main Authors:	Lancaster, Carol (Author), Farrar, Doug (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2016]
Subjects:	L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, > 1754-1825. Shepherd, Alexander Robey, > 1835-1902. Barry, Marion, > 1936-2014. Washington (D.C.) > History. Washington (D.C.) > Biography.

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