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THE MOST EXCRUCIATINGLY correct bookstore in the capital of this diversity-sensitive country is Politics & Prose on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C. There are, of course, black, lesbian-gay-transsexual, and ethnic bookstores elsewhere in the city. Politics & Prose, though, is the most convenient to the Cleveland Park neighborhood, the company town of rich liberalism. At the close of each day, the locals in their cappuccino-stained work clothes tramp up the street from the foundation grant mines to pick up the quota assigned by the Washington Post Book World
I'd never been looked on by the clerks as anything other than an intruder from outside the valley. Until, that is, on an impulse, I asked what...
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