Featured Book for Friday, June 24, 2005
NONFICTION/LETTERS/HISTORY
Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children
by Dorie McCullough Lawson (Doubleday, ISBN 038550330X, $24.95)
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Lawson, the daughter of popular historian David McCullough (1776), has compiled these letters from personages from history, politics, literature, commerce, the military, and entertainment in an elegant edition. Vestiges of a time before e-mail and cheap long distance calling, the letter survives in a way we can share with posterity. These are not just lectures, but highly personal documents between parent and child that illuminate the individuals and how they related to the world around them.
This would make a wonderful gift, if you can bear to part with it yourself.
Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children
by Dorie McCullough Lawson (Doubleday, ISBN 038550330X, $24.95)
.
Lawson, the daughter of popular historian David McCullough (1776), has compiled these letters from personages from history, politics, literature, commerce, the military, and entertainment in an elegant edition. Vestiges of a time before e-mail and cheap long distance calling, the letter survives in a way we can share with posterity. These are not just lectures, but highly personal documents between parent and child that illuminate the individuals and how they related to the world around them.
This would make a wonderful gift, if you can bear to part with it yourself.
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