Washington Is Burning

A devastating account of contemporary American military folly, political dysfunction, and corruption by the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine During the war of 1812 British Admiral George Cockburn fought his way to Washington, DC and torched the White House, the Capitol, and much of official Washington. Cockburn became the most hated man in America, vilified in the press as the “great bandit.” Here, his descendant Andrew Cockburn—longtime Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine —sets fire to