Introduction: Capital movers
The Capital archipelago
A plague of waters
A mechanic's guide to Washington City
Driving souls
The company they kept
Coming to the scratch
Illicit congress
Seeing the elephant
Suspicious characters
The fall of Washington City
A gilded cage
Epilogue: The sea of pavement.
Empire of mud : the secret history of Washington, DC by Jeff Dickey. ISBN 9780762787012. Published by Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.