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Table of Contents:
  • Fiction and History in Washington, D.C.
  • The Mighty Machinery and the Hands on It: Henry Adams's Washington
  • "No Doubt They All Bore More or Less the Stamp of Boston"
  • Democracy: The Novel as Disguised Autobiography
  • Echoes of Democracy in Henry James
  • Gallatin: The Cosmopolitan Frontiersman Jeffersonian
  • John Randolph: Biography as Satire
  • "History Has Many Cunning Passages"
  • "Could It Take Permanent Political Shape? Could It Give New Life to Religion and Art?"
  • "The Reign of Politics Showed No Sign of Ending"
  • Esther and an Attempted Rescue
  • Conversation, Edward Gibbon, Clover Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson.