Joe Shuman, "a bookseller who turned Trover Shop into a fixture on Capitol Hill, stocking the shelves of neighborhood homes, congressional offices and Library of Congress reading rooms for half a century," died June 6, the Washington Post reported. He was 88. The life of the bookstore, which closed in 2009, spanned 26 Congresses--the 85th through the 110th--and served as "a gathering place for political junkies of all persuasions."
Shuman and his friend Harvey Weinstein purchased Trover Shop in 1958, and "operated the bookstore with their wives at its original Independence Avenue address in Southeast Washington until the location was selected as the site of the Library of Congress's Madison building," the Post wrote. In the mid-1960s, the bookstore moved to the 200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE, where Shuman continued to run it after his business partner died.
