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Song to My City - Washington, DC

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Carol Lancaster was the dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 2010 until her death in 2014. A member of the US Department of State's policy planning staff and then deputy assistant secretary of state for Africa, she came to SFS in 1981 as a research professor; she later became director of the Africa Studies program. From 1993 to 1996, Carol took a leave of absence from her academic work to serve as deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development. She was the author of several books including Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics . Douglas Farrar , Carol Lancaster's son, is a policy and communications professional living and working in Washington, DC. A fourth-generation Washingtonian, he completed his mother's book after her death. Klappentext This deeply felt memoir is a love letter to Washington, DC. Lancaster, a third-generation Washingtonian, takes readers on a tour of the capital from its swamp-infested beginnings to the present day, with an insider's view of the gritty politics, environment, society, culture, and larger-than-life heroes that characterize her beloved hometown. Zusammenfassung A memoir! which is also a love letter to Washington! DC. It takes readers on a tour of the nation's capital from its swamp-infested beginnings to the present day! with an insider's view of the gritty politics! environment! society! culture! and larger-than-life heroes that characterize her beloved hometown.

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Authors Carol Lancaster, Carol/ Farrar Lancaster, Lancaster Carol
Publisher Georgetown University Press
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2016
 
EAN 9781626163836
ISBN 978-1-62616-383-6
No. of pages 224
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

USA, Memoirs, Local History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs

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