| The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865 Contributor(s): Holzer, Harold (Editor) |
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ISBN: 080932685X ISBN-13: 9780809326853 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press OUR PRICE: $21.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2006 Annotation: Harold Holzer, the editor of Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President, dips once again into Lincoln's bulging mailbag to assemble and annotate a volume of letters, many of them never before published, that the American people wrote to their president during the Civil War - correspondence that offered praise, criticism, advice, threats, abuse, and appeals for help and for special favors from men and women throughout the country. Significantly, this collection may be more representative of the mood of the country at the time than Lincoln might have known; it includes letters from black Americans, originally routed to the War Department's Colored Troops Bureau, that Lincoln never saw. The letters, of course, speak for themselves, but Holzer's introduction and annotations provide historical context for events and people described as well as for those who wrote so passionately to their president in Lincoln's America. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Literary Collections | Letters |
| Dewey: 973.709 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.34" W x 9.3" (0.96 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As president, Abraham Lincoln received between two hundred and five hundred letters a day--correspondence from public officials, political allies, and military leaders, as well as letters from ordinary Americans of all races who wanted to share their views with him. Here, and in his critically acclaimed volume Dear Mr. Lincoln, editor Harold Holzer has rescued these voices--sometimes eloquent, occasionally angry, at times poetic--from the obscurity of the archives of the Civil War. The Lincoln Mailbag includes letters written by African Americans, which Lincoln never saw, revealing to readers a more accurate representation of the nation's mood than even the president knew. This first paperback edition of The Lincoln Mailbag includes a new index and fourteen illustrations, and Holzer's introduction and annotations provide historical context for the events described and the people who wrote so passionately to their president in Lincoln's America. |