The clubhouse, set along the river,
featured nightly card games and a Filipino barkeeper who could mix a potent
gin and tonic. Nearly every week brought another dance or party.
Courtesy of Rebecca Ansary Pettys
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor at the Washington Post and author of Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan. For more information about the book, go to www.rajivc.com