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How the Post Office created America

a history

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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.

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English
Pages
326

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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Jul 04, 2017, Penguin Books
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Jul 01, 2016, Gildan Media
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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?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-315) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
383/.4973
Library of Congress
HE6371 .G35 2016, HE6371

The Physical Object

Pagination
326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
326

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27211860M
Internet Archive
howpostofficecreia40gall
ISBN 10
1594205000
ISBN 13
9781594205002
OCLC/WorldCat
929055992

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