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Like a city in dreams, the great white capital stretches along the placid river from Georgetown to the west to Anacostia on the east. It is a city of temporaries, a city of just-arriveds and only-visitings, built on the shifting sands of politics, filled with people passing through.

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For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.
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Allen Drury

Allen Drury

Born: September 2, 1918
Died: September 2, 1998 (aged 80)
Bio: Allen Stuart Drury was an American novelist. He wrote the 1959 novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960.
Known for:
  1. A Shade of Difference (1962)
  2. Preserve and Protect (1968)
  3. Capable of Honor (1966)
  4. A God Against the Gods (1976)

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