Critical Response
Publishers Weekly found the book's argument "predictable", but praised the idea of basing the book on the tour of Washington, saying this "structure does much to freshen up a book that is otherwise indistinguishable from prior offerings". In The New York Times, Andrew Ferguson said it "had the potential to be charming" and finds Callista Gingrich's photographs to be "lovely" and the book's production to be "elegant", but is otherwise scathing. The New York Review of Books commented it was "an item meant to be sold in the gift shops on the Mall as a sort of earphone substitute and eventual souvenir."
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