Telegram! by Linda Rosenkrantz

Telegram!
Linda Rosenkrantz
New York: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 9780805071016
Copyright 2003
207 pages

The binding is in good condition and the pages are clean. The cover shows minor wear. The jacket is price clipped and has a tiny nick on the front.   Good. Hardcover.

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. (#04)