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Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every evening for 8 years, at his request, President Obama received a binder containing ten handpicked letters from ordinary American citizens -- the unfiltered voice of a nation -- from his Office of Presidential Correspondence. He was the first President to save constituent mail, and this is the story of how those letters affected not only the President and his policies, but also the deeply committed people who were tasked with opening the millions...
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Publication Date
[2026]
Physical Desc
xii, 448 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the first shots at Fort Sumter to the mourning of Lincoln's death-experience the Civil War as it happened, through the voices of those who were there. History comes to life in the words of those who lived through the American Civil War. The Civil War was one of the great events of United States history, and the widespread literacy of the mid-nineteenth century made it possible for an unprecedented number of Americans to record their thoughts,...

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