Alexander Robey ShepherdWith Alexander Robey Shepherd, John P. Richardson gives us the first full length biography of his subject, who as Washington, D. C.s, public works czar (187174) built the infrastructure of the nations capital in a few frenetic years after the Civil War. The story of Shepherd is also the story of his hometown after that cataclysm, which left the city with churned up streets, stripped of its trees, and exhausted. An intrepid businessman, Shepherd became