Bibliograph

How the Post Office created America, a history, Winifred Gallagher

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How the Post Office created America, a history, Winifred Gallagher

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-315) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How the Post Office created America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

929055992

Responsibility statement

Winifred Gallagher

Sub title

a history

Summary

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 citizens. The post became the catalyst of the nation's transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Gallagher traces its origins and leaders and describes its role in every major event in American history, from the Revolutionary War to the dawn of the Internet age

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?

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