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{{short description|1967 novel by Gore Vidal}}
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{{Infobox book  <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
| name          = Washington, D.C.
| image         = File:WashingtonGoreVidal.jpg
| caption       = Cover of the first edition
| author        = [[Gore Vidal]]
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = 
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        = [[Narratives of Empire]]
| genre         = [[Historical novel]]
| publisher     = [[Little, Brown and Company|Little, Brown]]
| release_date  = 1967
| media_type    = Print ([[hardback]] & [[paperback]])
| pages         = 432
| isbn          = 0-375-70877-4
| dewey         = 813/.54 21
| congress      = PS3543.I26 W3 2000
| oclc          = 49559031
| preceded_by   = [[Hollywood (Vidal novel)|Hollywood]]
| followed_by   = [[The Golden Age (Gore Vidal novel)|The Golden Age]]
}}

'''''Washington, D.C.''''' is a 1967 novel by [[Gore Vidal]]. The sixth novel in his ''[[Narratives of Empire]]'' series of [[historical novel]]s (although the first one published), it begins in 1937 and continues into the [[Cold War]], tracing the families of Senator James Burden Day and influential newspaper publisher Blaise Sanford.

This book is the least historical and most novelistic of any of the seven books. The seventh book in the series, [[The Golden Age (Gore Vidal novel)|''The Golden Age'']], takes place during nearly the same span of years with many of the same characters and needed to be written around the events of ''Washington, D.C.''

The novel is written in the [[third-person narrative|third person]] and is inspired by the novels of [[Henry James]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Clarke |first=Gerald |date=6 December 1974 |title=Gore Vidal, The Art of Fiction No. 50 (Interview) |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3917/gore-vidal-the-art-of-fiction-no-50-gore-vidal |magazine=[[The Paris Review]] |publisher=The Paris Review Foundation |volume=Fall 1974 |issue=59}}</ref>

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