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.
With "Alexander Robey Shepherd, " John P. Richardson gives us the first full-length biography of his subject, who as Washington, D.C. s, public wor...
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. An intrepid businessman, Shepherd became president of Washington s lower house of delegates at twenty-seven. Garrulous and politically astute, he used every lever to...
With Alexander Robey Shepherd, John P. Richardson gives us the first full-length biography of his subject, who as Washington, D.C. s, public w...
