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Thursday, September 2, 2004 12:00 AM

When Washington burned

Conventional wisdom says the country comes together during wartime. But that has not always been the case, says historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. -- not even when the British torched the nation's capital in 1812.
By Jeff Horwitz

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