The Man Who Designed Washington, D.C.

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Scott W. Berg tells the dramatic story of Pierre “Peter” Charles L’Enfant--the man George Washington appointed to design the nation's capital in 1791, and who was fired after just 11 months.

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