A collection of letters, arranged by decade, that reveal the personal and public sides of key events in American life. Contributors include Ethel Rosenberg, Jackie Kennedy, Lillian Hellman, and an American soldier in Vietnam.
Beautifully illustrated and produced, it offers more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, creating an extraordinary chronicle of our history, and an essential volume for any family library.
Beautifully illustrated and produced, it offers more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, creating an extraordinary chronicle of our history, and an essential volume for any family library.
"[This] epic and grippingly entertaining book....persuasively testifies that throughout our century of great horror and grand achievement, what Abraham Lincoln called 'the better angels of our nature' have been a good deal busier than we are often led to believe."
01/02/2000
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