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By: Meg Greenfield

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Paperback | 1 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

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With Washington, the illustrious longtime editorial page editor of The Washington Post wrote an instant classic, a sociology of Washington, D.C., that is as wise as it is wry. Greenfield, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, wrote the book secretly in the final two years of her life. She told her literary executor, presidential historian Michael Beschloss, of her work and he has written an afterword telling the story of how the book came into being. Greenfield's close friend and employer, the late Katharine Graham, contributed a moving and personal foreword. Greenfield came to Washington in 1961, at the beginning of the Kennedy administration and joined The Washington Post in 1968. Her editorials at the Post and her columns in Newsweek, were universally admired in Washington for their insight and style. In this, her first book, Greenfield provides a portrait of the U.S. capital at the end of the American century. It is an eccentric, tribal, provincial place where the primary currency is power. For all the scandal and politics of Washington, its real culture is surprisingly little known. Meg Greenfield explains the place with an insider's knowledge and an observer's cool perspective.

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Central Government History Regional & National History History of the Americas Miscellaneous Items Biographies & True Stories Biographies Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Customs & Traditions

Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945 Society & Culture Cultural Studies

Foreword	p. ix
"Something Else Besides Human Life"	p. 1
The Good Child, the Head Kid, the Prodigy, and the Protege	p. 21
Mavericks and Image-Makers	p. 55
A Night at the Opera	p. 81
Women and Children	p. 105
The News Business	p. 159
Afterword	p. 227
Index	p. 235
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