Washington Confidential (Registro nro. 104293)
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| control field | 63469 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 51009812 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | F106 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lait, Jack, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1882-1954 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Washington Confidential |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2020 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2020-10-16 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Produced by Tim Lindell, Charlie Howard, Emmanuel d'Alzon<br/>Library (Assumption College) and the Online Distributed<br/>Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was<br/>produced from images made available by the HathiTrust<br/>Digital Library.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Washington Confidential" by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer is a revealing and controversial exposé written in the early 1950s. This book offers a gritty look at the underbelly of Washington, D.C., exploring issues of corruption, vice, and the peculiarities of life in the nation’s capital. Through their journalistic lens, the authors promise an unfiltered narrative that challenges the sanitized image of Washington as the seat of political power. The opening of "Washington Confidential" sets the stage for this exploration by framing the city as a paradox. Lait and Mortimer share their intent to dissect Washington, revealing it as a place of stark contradictions—architectural beauty alongside moral decay. They describe how Washington's political landscape is intertwined with vice, crime, and an extraordinary excess of government employees who engage in dubious activities. Their tone is acerbic and satirical, giving readers a sense that much of what lies beneath the surface of this capital city is overshadowed by a casual acceptance of vice, hinting at a darker reality far removed from the official narratives of governance and reform. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Note about original | Original publication data not identified |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mortimer, Lee, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1904-1963 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63469">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63469</a> |
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