In the main, this volume consists of articles originally published in the San Francisco BULLETIN. It includes material gathered from many visits to the Exposition grounds and from many talks with men concerned in the organization and the building and ornamentation. The brief history that forms the Introduction gives an account of the development. For me, as, I presume, for most people, the thing done, no matter how interesting it may he, is never so interesting as the doing of the thing, the ...

Washington D.C. glitters with ambition, but for Edith Carrington, wife of a rising congressman, it's a gilded cage. John Daniel Barry's "The Congressman's Wife, a Story of American Politics" is a captivating audiobook that takes you behind the scenes of power. Edith craved purpose, but is she prepared for the suffocating expectations and ruthless machinations that come with her husband's political climb? Will she find her voice amidst the whirl of society galas and backroom deals? Unveil t...