How the Post Office Created America : a history

How the Post Office Created America : a history / Winifred Gallagher.

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 citizen...

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Main Author: Gallagher, Winifred (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Penguin Group USA, 2017.
Subjects:
United States Postal Service > History.
United States Postal Service.
Postal service > United States > History.
Postal service.
United States.
History.
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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