Publisher's Synopsis
We explore the questions of Who? Why? When? and Where? in Washington DC at a crucial time in its history. Its physical growth has reflected the centralization that has occurred as the republic has evolved in its power and complexity. At its centennial as the Seat of Government in 1900, following a short triumphant war, the United States entered a new era. Its government would also be remade in the spirit of the Progressive movement to meet the challenges of industrial mobilization tested in the crucial participation in a world war. It would meet a national economic crisis in which industrial capitalism was found wanting. By 1940, it had clearly become an international power while its national capital had remade to fulfill its new role as an imperial city in line to become one of the crucial world capitals.
