How long does it take to read Washington D.C.?
Washington D.C. by Gore Vidal takes about 6 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Narratives of Empire
Next: Burr
About 6 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1967. 331 pages, about 91,025 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 39 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A study of power and change in Washington, D.C. during the middle of the twentieth century.
Subjects: Fiction, Legislators, Politics and government, Politicians, McCarthyism, Sexual behavior
