Posterity : Letters of Great Americans to Their Children

William Henry Seward -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Albert Einstein -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. -- Ansel Adams -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- John Adams -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Jack London -- Lincoln Steffens -- Eugene O'Neill -- N.C. Wyeth -- William O. Douglas -- Thomas Jefferson -- Sam Houston -- Salmon P. Chase -- Alfred Thayer Mahan -- Washington A. Roebling -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Richard E. Byrd -- Sherwood Anderson -- Eugene O'Neill -- N.C. Wyeth -- Clare Boothe Luce -- John Steinbeck -- John Adams -- John James Audubon -- Charles W. Eliot -- Frederick Law Olmsted -- John D. Rockefeller -- Sherwood Anderson -- Eugene O'Neill -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- N.C. Wyeth -- George Patton, Jr. -- Thomas Jefferson -- Abigail Adams -- George Catlin -- William James -- John J. Pershing -- Carl Sandburg -- William Carlos Williams -- Woody Guthrie -- Hume Cronyn -- John Steinbeck -- Anne Sexton -- Jonathan Edwards -- Abigail Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- Daniel Webster -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Sidney Lanier -- Theodore Roosevelt -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- John O'Hara -- John Adams -- Mark Twain -- Frederick Law Olmsted -- Sidney Lanier -- William James -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Theodore Roosevelt -- John D. Rockefeller -- Moe Howard -- Groucho Marx -- Thomas Jefferson -- Mary Todd Lincoln -- Thomas Edison -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Jack London -- John J. Pershing -- Eugene O'Neill -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- George Washington -- Benjamin Franklin -- Herman Melville -- Sam Houston -- Richard E. Byrd -- Lincoln Steffens -- Harry S. Truman -- John Quincy Adams -- Daniel Webster -- Frederick Douglass -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Robert E. Lee -- Mark Twain -- Woodrow Wilson -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Frederick Law Olmsted -- William Dean Howells -- N.C. Wyeth -- Oscar Hammerstein -- M.F.K. Fisher -- George Herbert Walker Bush -- Anne Bradstreet -- Benjamin Franklin -- Benjamin and Julia Rush -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Eddie Rickenbacker -- Barbara Bush.;Letters of great Americans to their children. An elegantly designed, beautifully composed volume of personal letters from famous American men and women that celebrates the American Experience and illuminates the rich history of some of America's most storied families. Posterity is at once an epistolary chronicle of America and a fascinating glimpse into the hearts and minds of some of history's most admired figures. Spanning more than three centuries, these letters contain enduring lessons in life and love, character and compassion that will surprise and enlighten. Included here are letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter, warning her of the evils of debt; General Patton on D-Day to his son, a cadet at West Point, about what it means to be a good soldier; W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter about character beneath the color of skin; Oscar Hammerstein about why, after all his success, he doesn't stop working; Woody Guthrie from a New Jersey asylum to nine-year-old Arlo about universal human frailty; sixty-five-year-old Laura Ingalls Wilder's train of thought about her pioneer childhood; Eleanor Roosevelt chastising her grown son for his Christmas plans; and Groucho Marx as a dog to his twenty-five-year-old son. With letters that span more than three centuries of American history, Posterity is a fascinating glimpse into the thoughts, wisdom, and family lives of those whose public accomplishments have touched us all. Here are renowned Americans in their own words and in their own times, seen as they were seen by their children. Here are our great Americans as mothers and fathers An elegantly designed, beautifully composed volume of personal letters from famous American men and women that celebrates the American Experience and illuminates the rich history of some of America’s most storied families. Posterity is at once an epistolary chronicle of America and a fascinating glimpse into the hearts and minds of some of history’s most admired figures and storied families. Spanning more than three centuries, these letters contain enduring lessons—in life, love, character and compassion—that will surprise and enlighten. Included here are letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter, warning her of the evils of debt; General Patton on D-Day to his son, a cadet at West Point, about what it means to be a good soldier; W.E.B. Du Bois to his daughter about character beneath the color of skin; Oscar Hammerstein about why, after all his success, he doesn’t stop working; Woody Guthrie, writing from a New Jersey asylum, to nine-year-old Arlo about universal human frailty; Eleanor Roosevelt chastising her grown son for his Christmas plans; and Groucho Marx as a dog to his twenty-five-year-old son. Here are renowned Americans in their own words and in their own times, seen as they were seen by their children. Here are our great Americans as mothers and fathers.