Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation's Capital (Crown Journeys)

The father of our country slept with Martha, but schlepped in the District. Now in the great man s footsteps comes humorist and twenty-year Washington resident Christopher Buckley with the real story of the city s founding. Well, not really. We re just trying to get you to buy the book. But we can say with justification that there s never been a more enjoyable, funny, and informative tour guide to the city than Buckley. His delight as he points out things of interest is con-tagious, and his frequent digressions about his own adventures as a White House staffer are often hilarious.

In Washington Schlepped Here, Buckley takes us along for several walks around the town and shares with us a bit of his other Washington. They include Dante s Paradiso (Union Station); the Zero Milestone of American democracy (the U.S. Capitol); the Almost Pink House (the White House); and many other historical (and often hysterical) journeys. Buckley is the sort of wonderful guide who pries loose the abalone-like clich s that cling to a place as mythic as D.C. Wonderfully insightful and eminently practical, Washington Schlepped Here shows us that even a city whose chief industry is government bureaucracy is a lot funnier and more surprising than its media-ready image might let on.