The best of Washington — from monuments to museums
From the White House to the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. is jam-packed with historic sites and cultural treasures. If you want to see it all — and have a capital time in the capital city — this handy guide points you to all the top sights.
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Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
What you shouldn't miss — and what you can skip
The best hotels and restaurants for every budget
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About the Author
Tom Price has lived in and written about Washington for more than two decades. As a political journalist and a parent of a college-aged Washington native, Tom knows the ins and outs of both official Washington and the kid-friendly landscape. From 1982 through 1995, Tom was a correspondent in the Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau. Since then, he has been a freelance writer whose work has appeared in books, magazines, and newspapers and on Internet sites. He is the author of Washington, D.C. For Dummies, 2nd Edition and Frommer’s Irreverent Guide to Washington, D.C., 5th Edition. With his wife, Susan Crites Price, Tom is coauthor of The Working Parents Help Book: Practical Advice for Dealing with the Day-to-Day Challenges of Kids and Careers, which won a Parents’ Choice Award, was a Scholastic Book Club selection, and has been featured by “Today” and “Oprah.” Previously, Tom, a Pittsburgh native, reported for newspapers in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Tom Price is a veteran newspaper reporter, Washington correspondent and freelance writer whose work focuses on government, politics, business, technology, education and travel.
Between two stints as a freelancer -- the current stretch beginning in 1996 -- Tom worked as a correspondent in the Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau and as chief politics writer for the Cox newspapers in Dayton, Ohio.
Tom is co-author of Changing the Face of Hunger: One Man's Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, and People of Faith are Joining Forces to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed (Thomas Nelson, 2006, soft-cover edition 2007). It was written with Tony Hall, former U.S. representative and ambassador, whom Tom covered during his newspaper career.
Tom is the author of three major studies of politics and the Internet, all published by the Foundation for Public Affairs: "Creating a Digital Democracy: The Impact of the Internet on Public Policy Making" (1999); "Cyber Activism: Advocacy Groups and the Internet" (2000); and "Public Affairs Strategies in the Internet Age" (2002), a look at how businesses are using the Internet to influence public policy and public opinion. He wrote four other studies for the foundation: "Activists in the Boardroom: How Advocacy Groups Seek to Shape Corporate Behavior" (2006;) "Promoting CEO Engagement in Public Affairs" (2007); and "When Disaster Strikes: A New Guide to Crisis Management" (2008); and "Managing Risk: Public Affairs and Enterprise Risk Management."
Tom is a contributing writer for Congressional Quarterly's CQ Researcher and a guest writer for the Miller-McCune.com online magazine. He writes a public policy column for the science magazine Optics and Photonics News. He is the author of three Frommer's travel guides: Washington, D.C., for Dummies (Wiley Publishing, 2003, 2005 and 2007), and, with his wife Susan Crites Price, The Irreverent Guide to Washington, D.C. (Wiley, 2005 and 2007) and Washington, D.C., Free and Dirt Cheap (Wiley, 2010).
Tom's work also has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Rolling Stone, Inter@ctive Week, Business Education Forum, The Year in Computing, The Year in Defense, The Year in Energy and Public Affairs Review. He has written for online services such as ChamberBiz.com and The Family Education Network. His clients also have included the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Kettering Foundation and publications at Georgetown and American universities.
With Susan, Tom is coauthor of The Working Parents Help Book: Practical Advice for Dealing with the Day-to-Day Challenges of Kids and Careers (Peterson's 1994, rev. ed. 1996). The book won a Parents' Choice Award, was a selection of the Scholastic Book Club, and has been featured by "Today," "Oprah" and other broadcast and print media. The Prices wrote the weekly "Working Parents Lifeline" column, which was published in more than 60 newspapers, and the weekly "Working Solutions" column, which appeared first on the Family Planet Internet site and now is archived on Disney's Family.com.
Tom has spoken around the country about politics and the Internet and has been interviewed on numerous national and local television and radio broadcasts.
As a concierge at one of D.C.'s finest hotels, I was shocked and humbled by the wealth of knowledge in this book that I should have already known, but didn't. While there have been some minor changes in regards to some restaurants and hotels, the book was remarkably accurate with its information. I have two copies; one at home for visiting friends and one at my desk for quick reference. Anyone working in the travel industry should keep this nearby for an essential job tool.
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I've read through several Washington DC. travel guides, and this one was, by far, the worst. It's very far from comprehensive, and spent far too much time on things like "How to get to Washington, DC", and very little time talking about hotels (a negligently small listing), restaurants and nightlife (a few paragraphs). Book is black and white with no color photos, no color maps (so no different colors for each of the metro lines), actually very little in the way of maps, and no photos to speak of either. Poor. Frommers Washington DC guide is a far better investment. Even Fodors is better. Possibly the weekend section of the Washington Post would be more useful than this paperweight.
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I guess this book is useful if you want to know such insightful things as it gets hot in the summer in Washington DC and kids are not in school, or, that it gets very cold in the winter (imagine that). Other gems include that you can take a cab from the airport to your hotel, and to wear comfortable shoes if you plan to do a lot of walking. I picked this up before a trip to the nation's capitol, and was underwhelmed with the information. Luckily one of my buddies had a different much more comprehensive guide to the Washington DC, so we opted to use that.
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