The Designer of D.C.

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Listen Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2007 at 1:20 p.m. in Politics, Society

Guest host: Matthew Felling

He was dismissed from his job after only eleven months, and his role in designing America's capital city was downplayed for a hundred years. Now, scholars are taking a deeper look at Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the artistic genius entrusted by George Washington to create D.C. from scratch. We look at L'Enfant's legacy and why he was almost forgotten to history.

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Scott W. Berg

Author, "Grand Avenues: The Story of the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C." (Pantheon)

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