How the Post Office Created America
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Winifred Gallagher
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-28 - Publisher: Penguin

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A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation
Neither Snow Nor Rain
Language: en
Pages: 381
Authors: Devin Leonard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-03 - Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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“[The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense.” —USA
There's Always Work at the Post Office
Language: en
Pages: 473
Authors: Philip F. Rubio
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-15 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black free
Spreading the News
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Richard R. JOHN
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In the seven decades from its establishment in 1775 to the commercialization of the electric telegraph in 1844, the American postal system spurred a communicati
How the Post Office Created America
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Winifred Gallagher
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-04 - Publisher: Penguin

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“’The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America,’ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she make