How the Post Office created America a history
Discover the surprising role of the postal service in our nation's political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time it represented the government for most citizen...
| Main Author: | Gallagher, Winifred (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Why the Post Office matters
- Inventing the government : B. Free Franklin
- Building the postal commons
- Moving the mail
- The politicized post
- Crisis and opportunity
- The personal post
- Growing the communications culture
- Linking East and West
- The mail must go through
- War clouds, silver linings
- Full steam ahead
- The golden age
- Redefining "postal"
- Starving the post
- Mid-modern meltdown
- The U.S. Postal Service
- Afterword: Whither the Post?