The public face of Washington -- the gridiron of L'Enfant's avenues, the buttoned-down demeanor Sloan Wilson's archetypal Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, the monumental buildings of the Triangle -- rarely gives up the secrets of this city's rich life. But beneath the surface there are countless stories to be told. From the early swamp days to the Civil War, the gilded age to the New Deal and McCarthy era, as the center of world power to its underlying multicultural social fabric, Washington is a writer's town. Finally, in Literary Washington D.C., the story of the city is finally told.