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Washington, by Meg Greenfield (Public Affairs, 272 pp., $26)
The Columnist, by Jeffrey Frank (Simon & Schuster, 240 pp., $22)
Washington, d.c., may not be a bookish city, but it has inspired an unusual number of books. This literary output comes in several genres. One is the memoir of the journalist who recounts the capital city's golden age, which happens to coincide with his own years there. The tone is one of high seriousness about the nation's affairs, coupled with lamentation about the decline of manners, mores, and statesmanship. It could be David Brinkley describing the rise of Washington after the Second World War in Washington Goes to War, or ...