How The Post Office Created America Gallagher Winifred
How The Post Office Created America Gallagher Winifred A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal…
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How The Post Office Created America Gallagher Winifred
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'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 was the U.S. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen--a radical idea that appalled Europe's great powers. government's largest and most important endeavor--indeed, it was the government for most citizens.
America's uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world's