Displaying 1 of 1 2016 Format: Book Author: Gallagher, Winifred, author. Title: How the post office created America : a history / Winifred Gallagher. Publisher, Date: New York : Penguin Press, 2016. Description: 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Summary: "A history of the U.S. Post Office 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,"--NoveList. Subjects: United States Postal Service -- History. Postal service -- United States -- History. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-315) and index. 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? ISBN: 1594205000 9781594205002 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Where is it? Large Cover Image Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1
