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Features more than two hundred letters, many in print for the first time, by Americans from all walks of life, including civil rights leaders, artists, Native Americans, writers, explorers, revolutionaries, slaves, and presidents
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A collection of some 200 letters by presidents, slaves, soldiers, prisoners, revolutionaries, artists, religious and civil rights leaders, and Americans from all walks of life, spanning 350 years of American culture and history. Letters offer eyewitness accounts of political and social upheaval, reveal private fears of the famous and powerful, and remind us of the horrors of war. Writers include Malcolm X, Elvis Presley, Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, and Benjamin Franklin. For students and general readers. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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