Women's Letters
Subtitle: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present
Contributors: Lisa Grunwald (Editor); Stephen J. Adler (Editor)
Publisher: The Dial Press, a division of Random House
Published: September 27, 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 832
ISBN-13: 9780385335539
Description: Historical events of the last three centuries and personal milestones in women's lives come alive through these singular correspondences, over 400 letters accompanied by over 100 photographs. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describes a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; one week after JFK's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; an eighteen-year-old tells her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, "Were you afraid?"--Publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Revolution : 1775-1799; title: The new nation : 1800-1844; title: Expansion : 1845-1860; title: Civil War : 1861-1865; title: Reconstruction and the Gilded Age : 1866-1899; title: Modern times : 1900-1928; title: Depression and war : 1929-1945; title: The world of the baby boom : 1946-1979; title: Just yesterday : 1980-2005; title: Sources and permissions