Letters to Jackie Condolences from a Grieving Nation by Ellen Fitzpatrick. EPUB (Perseu)

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It is perhaps the most memorable event of the twentieth
century, a moment that left a family and a nation mourning,
one that many Americans recall as their first historical
memory—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Within seven weeks of the President's death, Jacqueline
Kennedy received more than 800,000 condolence letters. Two
years later, the volume of correspondence would exceed 1.5
million letters. For the next forty-six years, the letters
would remain essentially untouched. Now historian Ellen
Fitzpatrick has selected approximately 250 of these letters
for inclusion in Letters to Jackie, a remarkable human
record that perfectly preserves the heart-wrenching grief
and soul searching of the nation in a time of crisis.
Capturing the extraordinary eloquence of so-called ordinary
Americans across generations, regions, race, political
leanings, and religion—in messages written on elegant
stationery, scraps of paper, in pencil, type, ink smudged
by tears, and in barely legible handwriting—the letters
capture what John F. Kennedy meant to the country, and how
his death for some divided American history
into Before and After.


Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation
by Ellen Fitzpatrick
Pages: 670
Format: EPUB
Language:EN
(ISBN13: 9780061969843)

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