Letters of the Century
America 1900-1999
Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen, write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last 100 years.Here is Mark Twain's hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union, an ecstatic letter from a young Charlie Chaplin upon receiving his first movie contract, Einstein's letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning about atomic warfare, Mark Rudd's generation gap le…
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Weitere Autoren: Adler, Stephen J. / Twain, Mark / Chaplin, Charlie / Einstein, Albert
- ISBN: 978-0-385-31593-7
- EAN: 9780385315937
- Produktnummer: 3259808
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 752 S.
Über den Autor
Lisa Grunwald, a freelance journalist, is a former Contributing Editor for Life magazine and former Features Editor of Esquire. She is the author of the novels New Year's Eve, The Theory of Everything, and Summer. Stephen J. Adler is an Assistant Managing Editor at The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of The Jury: Trial And Error In The American Courtroom.Grunwald and Adler live with their two children in New York City.
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