Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C., 1964-1994.
Washington Monthly › Vol. 26 Nbr. 4, April 1994
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Two years after he emerged from a federal penitentiary, Marion Barry is back. Decked out in African regalia, with a new wife at his side--his fourth, who is, like his second, a convicted felon--the former mayor plots his political comeback. From the D.C. Council he holds forth in his endless quest for respectability. In their new book on the Barry era, Dream City, Harry S. Jaffe and Tom Sherwood remind us of how much damage Barry did to his adopted city, and especially to the poor he claimed to champion. Sherwood, who has covered him for nearly 20 years, first at The Washington Post and then at WRC-TV, and Jaffe, a writer for Washingtonian magazine,...See the full content of this document
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