Author: Antoine de Saint-ExupéryPublisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Southern Mail
Author: Antoine de Saint-ExupéryPublisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Saint-Exupery
Author: Stacy SchiffPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805079135
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Traces the life of the French author and pilot, depicts his complex personality, and looks at his contributions to the war effort.
Secession and the U.S. Mail
Author: Conrad KalmbacherPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481744127
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In Secession and the U. S. Mail: The Postal Service, The South, and Sectional Controversy, Conrad Kalmbacher tells the little known story of over fifty years of dissension between the Post Office Department and the South, culminating in the departments role in the events leading to secession and the Guns of April 1861. Severe reductions and retrenchment in mail service throughout the South and on Mississippi River steamboats during the administration of Postmaster General Joseph Holt, 1859-1860, angered southern senators and congressmen against the federal government. Deploring the postmaster generals policy, southern leaders called Holt our bitter foe who, by a mere stroke of his pen had curtailed mail service in the South to such a degree as to render it no service at all. Because of this bitter anger, one Pulitzer Prize-winning historian characterized Holts policy as one of the less tangible factors leading to secession. Drawing on House and Senate documents, postmasters general reports, and Congressional debates, as well as personal letters, diaries, memoirs, and newspapers of the time, the author makes extensive use of primary sources. The book details how antagonisms between the Postal Service and the South had their beginnings early on in American history: Continual debates questioned whether the South received its fair share of federal dollars for post offices and post routes. Southerners defended the maintenance of unprofitable mail routes in remote areas. Negro postriders caused resentment among Southerners. And years of controversy inflamed the South over the distribution of abolitionist literature through the mails. Today, when the role of government is a central issue in American politics, it is revealing to consider the ominous signposts of 1859-1860, as the Post Office Department - at that time the principal political agency of the federal government became embroiled in overheated debate, partisan bickering, and failed compromise.
Longworth's American Almanac, New York Register, and City Directory ...
Author: Reports of the Majority and Minority of the Committee. Together with the Documents Accompanying the Same, to which is Prefixed an Index of the Principal Matters in the Reports
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
Reports of Committees
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
American State Papers
Author: American State Papers
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Congressional Directory
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Author: