Telegram! : modern history as told through more than 400 witty, poignant, and revealing telegrams
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- ISBN: 0805071016
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xv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm - Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York : H. Holt, 2003.
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General Note: | Includes index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 25.95 |
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Telegram! : Modern History As Told Through More Than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams
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Table of Contents
Telegram! : Modern History As Told Through More Than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction | p. xi | |
Part 1 | ||
Pith | p. 3 | |
Birth and Death | p. 6 | |
Parents and Children | p. 13 | |
Siblings | p. 24 | |
Love and Marriage | p. 26 | |
Friendship | p. 38 | |
Mundanities | p. 40 | |
Shopping | p. 43 | |
Breakthroughs | p. 45 | |
Felicitations | p. 49 | |
Acceptance and Regrets | p. 55 | |
Send Money Stop | p. 59 | |
Pique | p. 68 | |
Jibes and Jousts | p. 75 | |
Hooray for Hollywood | p. 79 | |
Classic Films | p. 83 | |
Oscars | p. 89 | |
Casting Calls | p. 90 | |
Big Breaks | p. 92 | |
Musical Notes | p. 94 | |
Good Sports | p. 96 | |
Part 2 | ||
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office | p. 103 | |
The Civil War | p. 110 | |
Custer's Next-to-Last Stand | p. 117 | |
Wounded Knee | p. 118 | |
An Early Cuban Crisis | p. 119 | |
Elections | p. 120 | |
World War I | p. 126 | |
The Russian Revolution | p. 130 | |
Gandhi | p. 132 | |
The Crash and the Depression | p. 132 | |
Hitler and the Genesis of World War II | p. 135 | |
Roosevelt and Churchill | p. 138 | |
Pearl Harbor | p. 140 | |
America Enters the War | p. 144 | |
The Holocaust | p. 149 | |
Hitler's Demise | p. 151 | |
Hiroshima | p. 152 | |
The Cold War | p. 153 | |
Israel | p. 157 | |
Korea | p. 159 | |
The Cuban Missile Crisis | p. 160 | |
Pride and Prejudice | p. 162 | |
Vietnam | p. 170 | |
Bush Sr. in China | p. 173 | |
Disasters | p. 174 | |
9/11 | p. 178 | |
Telegraph Time Line | p. 181 | |
Permissions | p. 193 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 200 | |
Index | p. 202 |