At age thirty, Madeleine Lee, a wealthy, wellborn widow, has tired of Gilded Age New York and its shallow society. She decides to spend the winter in Washington with her sister, renting a house on Lafayette Square, within easy reach of all the intense partying, horse-trading, and other activities that politics requires.
As she makes friends (and enemies) with the locals, one question remains uppermost in Madeleine Lee¿s mind: ¿Who, then, is ri...
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