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- Summary
- There was a time when the sight of a Western Union delivery boy coming up the walk filled Americans with a sense of excitement or trepidation. Between its invention in the mid-nineteenth century and its post-1960s relegation to money transfer and congratulations, the telegraph served as the primary medium for urgent messages. Telegram! collects the most poignant and revealing examples of this earliest form of instant communication. Organized into categories such as "Parents and Children," "Hooray for Hollywood," and "Lincoln in the Telegraph Office," the telegrams range from such moving personal notes as W.C. Fields's wire to his dying friend John Barrymore, "You can't do this to me," to political advice, such as one voter's telegraphed suggestion to President Herbert Hoover: "Vote for Roosevelt and make it unanimous." The communication compiled here also provides a novel and engaging perspective on modern history. Abraham Lincoln virtually conducted the Civil War over the telegraph wires, financial nabobs used them to discuss (and fail to predict) the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression, and Japanese diplomats in Washington sent a flurry of encoded telegrams to Tokyo in the weeks leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. This handsome volume blends history, sociology, wit, and creativity as captured and dispatched by the telegram in its golden age. - Publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xv, 207 pages
- Contents
-
- Love and Marriage
- 26
- Friendship
- 38
- Mundanities
- 40
- Shopping
- 43
- Breakthroughs
- 45
- Pith
- Felicitations
- 49
- Acceptance and Regrets
- 55
- Send Money Stop
- 59
- Pique
- 68
- Jibes and Jousts
- 75
- 3
- Hooray for Hollywood
- 79
- Classic Films
- 83
- Oscars
- 89
- Casting Calls
- 90
- Big Breaks
- 92
- Birth and Death
- Musical Notes
- 94
- Good Sports
- 96
- Lincoln in the Telegraph Office
- 103
- The Civil War
- 110
- Custer's Next-to-Last Stand
- 117
- 6
- Wounded Knee
- 118
- An Early Cuban Crisis
- 119
- Elections
- 120
- World War I
- 126
- The Russian Revolution
- 130
- Parents and Children
- Gandhi
- 132
- The Crash and the Depression
- 132
- Hitler and the Genesis of World War II
- 135
- Roosevelt and Churchill
- 138
- Pearl Harbor
- 140
- 13
- America Enters the War
- 144
- The Holocaust
- 149
- Hitler's Demise
- 151
- Hiroshima
- 152
- The Cold War
- 153
- Siblings
- Israel
- 157
- Korea
- 159
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- 160
- Pride and Prejudice
- 162
- Vietnam
- 170
- 24
- Bush Sr. in China
- 173
- Disasters
- 174
- 9/11
- 178
- Telegraph Time Line
- 181
- Permissions
- 193
- Isbn
- 9780805071016
- Label
- Telegram! : modern history as told through more than 400 witty, poignant, and revealing telegrams
- Title
- Telegram!
- Title remainder
- modern history as told through more than 400 witty, poignant, and revealing telegrams
- Statement of responsibility
- Linda Rosenkrantz
- Subject
-
- History
- History, Modern
- History, Modern -- 19th century -- Sources
- History, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- 1800 - 1999
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects
- Telegraph
- Telegraph -- History
- Sources
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- There was a time when the sight of a Western Union delivery boy coming up the walk filled Americans with a sense of excitement or trepidation. Between its invention in the mid-nineteenth century and its post-1960s relegation to money transfer and congratulations, the telegraph served as the primary medium for urgent messages. Telegram! collects the most poignant and revealing examples of this earliest form of instant communication. Organized into categories such as "Parents and Children," "Hooray for Hollywood," and "Lincoln in the Telegraph Office," the telegrams range from such moving personal notes as W.C. Fields's wire to his dying friend John Barrymore, "You can't do this to me," to political advice, such as one voter's telegraphed suggestion to President Herbert Hoover: "Vote for Roosevelt and make it unanimous." The communication compiled here also provides a novel and engaging perspective on modern history. Abraham Lincoln virtually conducted the Civil War over the telegraph wires, financial nabobs used them to discuss (and fail to predict) the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression, and Japanese diplomats in Washington sent a flurry of encoded telegrams to Tokyo in the weeks leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. This handsome volume blends history, sociology, wit, and creativity as captured and dispatched by the telegram in its golden age. - Publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rosenkrantz, Linda
- Dewey number
- 973.9
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- D351
- LC item number
- .R57 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Telegraph
- History, Modern
- History, Modern
- Technological innovations
- Information technology
- History, Modern
- Information technology
- Technological innovations
- Telegraph
- Label
- Telegram! : modern history as told through more than 400 witty, poignant, and revealing telegrams, Linda Rosenkrantz
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Love and Marriage
- 26
- Friendship
- 38
- Mundanities
- 40
- Shopping
- 43
- Breakthroughs
- 45
- Pith
- Felicitations
- 49
- Acceptance and Regrets
- 55
- Send Money Stop
- 59
- Pique
- 68
- Jibes and Jousts
- 75
- 3
- Hooray for Hollywood
- 79
- Classic Films
- 83
- Oscars
- 89
- Casting Calls
- 90
- Big Breaks
- 92
- Birth and Death
- Musical Notes
- 94
- Good Sports
- 96
- Lincoln in the Telegraph Office
- 103
- The Civil War
- 110
- Custer's Next-to-Last Stand
- 117
- 6
- Wounded Knee
- 118
- An Early Cuban Crisis
- 119
- Elections
- 120
- World War I
- 126
- The Russian Revolution
- 130
- Parents and Children
- Gandhi
- 132
- The Crash and the Depression
- 132
- Hitler and the Genesis of World War II
- 135
- Roosevelt and Churchill
- 138
- Pearl Harbor
- 140
- 13
- America Enters the War
- 144
- The Holocaust
- 149
- Hitler's Demise
- 151
- Hiroshima
- 152
- The Cold War
- 153
- Siblings
- Israel
- 157
- Korea
- 159
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- 160
- Pride and Prejudice
- 162
- Vietnam
- 170
- 24
- Bush Sr. in China
- 173
- Disasters
- 174
- 9/11
- 178
- Telegraph Time Line
- 181
- Permissions
- 193
- Control code
- 52121483
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xv, 207 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805071016
- Lccn
- 2003049913
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- UMKC: Z Coll. copy forms part of the Norman Saks Collection.
- Other physical details
- illustrations, 1 map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)52121483
- Label
- Telegram! : modern history as told through more than 400 witty, poignant, and revealing telegrams, Linda Rosenkrantz
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Love and Marriage
- 26
- Friendship
- 38
- Mundanities
- 40
- Shopping
- 43
- Breakthroughs
- 45
- Pith
- Felicitations
- 49
- Acceptance and Regrets
- 55
- Send Money Stop
- 59
- Pique
- 68
- Jibes and Jousts
- 75
- 3
- Hooray for Hollywood
- 79
- Classic Films
- 83
- Oscars
- 89
- Casting Calls
- 90
- Big Breaks
- 92
- Birth and Death
- Musical Notes
- 94
- Good Sports
- 96
- Lincoln in the Telegraph Office
- 103
- The Civil War
- 110
- Custer's Next-to-Last Stand
- 117
- 6
- Wounded Knee
- 118
- An Early Cuban Crisis
- 119
- Elections
- 120
- World War I
- 126
- The Russian Revolution
- 130
- Parents and Children
- Gandhi
- 132
- The Crash and the Depression
- 132
- Hitler and the Genesis of World War II
- 135
- Roosevelt and Churchill
- 138
- Pearl Harbor
- 140
- 13
- America Enters the War
- 144
- The Holocaust
- 149
- Hitler's Demise
- 151
- Hiroshima
- 152
- The Cold War
- 153
- Siblings
- Israel
- 157
- Korea
- 159
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- 160
- Pride and Prejudice
- 162
- Vietnam
- 170
- 24
- Bush Sr. in China
- 173
- Disasters
- 174
- 9/11
- 178
- Telegraph Time Line
- 181
- Permissions
- 193
- Control code
- 52121483
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xv, 207 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805071016
- Lccn
- 2003049913
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- UMKC: Z Coll. copy forms part of the Norman Saks Collection.
- Other physical details
- illustrations, 1 map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)52121483
Subject
- History
- History, Modern
- History, Modern -- 19th century -- Sources
- History, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- 1800 - 1999
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects
- Telegraph
- Telegraph -- History
- Sources
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