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Preface There are literally hundreds of cities all over the world that call themselves unique, but Washington DC is the only one that truly deserves that appellation. It is the first city that was created with the distinct purpose of establishing a home for a nation's government. As early as...

f all twentieth-century artifacts none is more quintessencially American than the automobile. Germany may have been the birthplace of the automobile and France its cradle, but it was in America that the car first became a part of the lives of ordinary people, and an important contributor to the...

Introduction H ow difficult it is to ivrite about Tuscany. One is swamped by the tritest of clichés to the point tvhere it appears impossible to find even a single phrase that has not already been used by an art historian, a poet, a naturalist, an anthropologist or an ordinary, casual...