Despotism and Democracy: A Study in Washington Society and Politics

by Molly Elliot Seawell

EN·~5 hours·14 chapters

Chapters

14 total

DESPOTISM AND DEMOCRACY

1:05

Chapter One MEN AND WOMEN

30:31

Chapter Two THE RISE OF A PREMIER AND SOMETHING ABOUT TWO HEARTS

20:06

Chapter Three DOWN AMONG THE CAPTAINS AND THE SHOUTING

27:45

Chapter Four GOVERNMENT WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED

20:19

Chapter Five A RAPTUROUS HOUR WHICH WAS RUDELY INTERRUPTED

23:37

Chapter Six DEVILS AND ANGELS FIGHT FOR THE SOULS OF MEN

20:26

Chapter Seven HOW VARIOUS PERSONS SPENT A MAY SUNDAY IN WASHINGTON

19:53

Chapter Eight A NEW SENATOR—A RAILWAY JOURNEY—THE ROSE OF THE FIELD AND THE ROSES OF THE GARDEN

28:00

Chapter Nine CONCERNING THINGS NOT TO BE MENTIONED IN THE SOCIETY JOURNALS

34:35

Description

Attributed to Molly Elliot Seawell.

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Duration

~5 hours (332K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: McClure, Phillips and Company,1908.

Credits

D A Alexander, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

Mar 27, 2022

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67721

Subjects

Political fiction Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction PS

About the author

Molly Elliot Seawell

1860–1916

A prolific American writer of fiction, history, and sea stories, she brought the worlds of Virginia, Washington politics, and naval adventure to a wide readership. Her career ranged from popular magazine fiction to biographies and historical works, making her a distinctive literary voice of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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