1. Alan Lessoff, The Nation and Its City: Politics, "Corruption," and Progress in Washington, D.C., 1861-1902 (Baltimore, 1994), 14.
2. Howard Gillette, Jr. , Between Beauty and Justice: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C. (Baltimore, 1995), 213.
3. Carl Abbott, Political Terrain: Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis (Chapel Hill, 1999), esp. 140-41, 156. Also, Carl Abbott, "Washington and Berlin: National Capitals in a Networked World," in Berlin-Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representations, and National Identities , ed. Andreas W. Daum and Christof Mauch (New York , 2005), 101-24.
4. Zachary M. Schrag, The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro ( Baltimore, 2006), 283.