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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
0 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
Yes
ISBN
0805071016
Book Title
Telegram! : Modern History As Told Through more than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
Item Length
8.3 in
Publication Year
2003
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Linda Rosenkrantz
Features
Revised
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Computers, History
Topic
Social Aspects, Modern / 20th Century, General, Modern / 19th Century, Telecommunications, Modern / General, Information Technology
Item Weight
14.2 Oz
Item Width
6.2 in
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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There was a time when the sight of a Western Union delivery boy coming up the walk filled Americans with a sense of excitement or trepidation. Between its invention in the mid-nineteenth century and its post-1960s relegation to money transfer and congratulations, the telegraph served as the primary medium for urgent messages.Telegram!collects the most poignant and revealing examples of this earliest form of instant communication. Organized into categories such as "Parents and Children," "Hooray for Hollywood," and "Lincoln in the Telegraph Office," the telegrams range from such moving personal notes as W.C. Fields's wire to his dying friend John Barrymore, "You can't do this to me," to political advice, such as one voter's telegraphed suggestion to President Herbert Hoover: "Vote for Roosevelt and make it unanimous." The communication compiled here also provides a novel and engaging perspective on modern history. Abraham Lincoln virtually conducted the Civil War over the telegraph wires, financial nabobs used them to discuss (and fail to predict) the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression, and Japanese diplomats in Washington sent a flurry of encoded telegrams to Tokyo in the weeks leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. This handsome volume blends history, sociology, wit, and creativity as captured and dispatched by the telegram in its golden age.

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Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805071016
ISBN-13
9780805071016
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2491271

Product Key Features

Book Title
Telegram! : Modern History As Told Through more than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Social Aspects, Modern / 20th Century, General, Modern / 19th Century, Telecommunications, Modern / General, Information Technology
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Revised
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Computers, History
Author
Linda Rosenkrantz
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.2 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Lccn
2003-049913
Dewey Decimal
973.9
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Lc Classification Number
D351.R57 2003
Copyright Date
2003

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