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Title:

Dear Mr. President : letters to the Oval Office from the files of the National Archives / introduction by Brian Williams ; text by Dwight Young.

Edition:

Special ed.

Publisher:

National Geographic,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

191 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Presidents--United States--Correspondence.
Presidents' spouses--United States--Correspondence.
American letters.

Other Authors:

Young, Dwight.
Williams, Brian.
United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Contents:

Foreword / Allen Weinstein -- Introduction / Brian Williams -- First President: John Langdon to George Washington, April 6, 1789 -- The king and I: King Mongkut of Siam to Abraham Lincoln, February 14, 1861 -- Equal pay: James H. Gooding to Abraham Lincoln, September 28, 1863 -- Freedom: Annie Davis to Abraham Lincoln, August 28, 1864 -- Lincoln assassination: Lincoln's Cabinet to Andrew Johnson, April 15, 1865 -- The "Indian" question: Wolf Chief to James Garfield, December, 1881 -- Gov. Edmund Ross and others to Grover Cleveland, August 14, 1886 -- the Spanish-American War: Annie Oakley to William McKinley, April 5, 1898 -- Muckraking: Upton Sinclair to Theodore Roosevelt, March 10, 1906 -- Anti-Semitism: Charles D. Levy to Calvin Coolidge, June 24, 1924 -- Anti-Immigration: Women of the Ku Klux Klan to Calvin Coolidge, May 15, 1924 -- Prohibition: Alva P. Jones, National Cigarette Law Enforcement League, to Herbert Hoover, May 25, 1929 -- Woman's Home Missionary Society to Herbert Hoover, June 15, 1932 -- Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wilson to Herbert Hoover, June 15, 1932 -- Lindbergh kidnapping: Citizens of South Dakota to Herbert Hoover, April 26, 1932 -- Lynching: Henry Johnson to William McKinley, June 5, 1899 -- Ara Lee Settle to Warren G. Harding, June 8, 1922 -- Horace Robinson to Herbert Hoover, November 20, 1929 -- Aviatrix: Amelia Earhart to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 10, 1936 -- The Federal Arts Project: Gisella (Lacher) Loeffler to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 27, 1939 -- Social Security: Petra E. Harthun to Eleanor Roosevelt, August 7, 1941 -- Cuba: Fidel Castro to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 6, 1940 -- Separate but equal: C. Dearman to William H. Taft, July 18, 1912 -- George A. Murray to Woodrow Wilson, February 14, 1920 -- The Holocaust: Stephen S. Wise to Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 2, 1942 -- Pearl Harbor: J.B. Manual to Franklin D. Roosevelt, February 23, 1942 -- The draft, WWII: French R. Massey to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 12, 1943 -- Anna Rush to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Novem

Summary:

Dear Mr. President presents a delirious potpourri of 87 letters, written by people from all walks of life, from children to the working man to the very famous. This carefully selected batch of letters includes the letter from a ten year old Fidel Castro to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 requesting ten bucks; an offer from Annie Oakley to President McKinley to raise a company of fifty American lady sharpshooters in the event of a war with Spain; a scrawled note on American Airlines in flight letterhead from Elvis Presley to Richard Nixon offering his services to fight the Hippie Elements; and a very moving letter about the state of civil rights from Jackie Robinson to President Eisenhower. The letters themselves are reproduced where possible as full size facsimiles and are accompanied with commentary to help the reader place them within historical events. Some archival photos also run with the letters, in cases where the writer and the President were photographed together.

ISBN:

1426204167
9781426204166

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

HNPC845 -- Hawarden Public Library (Hawarden)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

ZKPC437 -- Logan Public Library (Logan)