An elegantly designed, beautifully composed volume of personalletters from famous American men and women that celebrates theAmerican Experience and illuminates the rich history of some ofAmerica’s most storied families. Posterity is at once an epistolary chronicle of America and afascinating glimpse into the hearts and minds of some of history’smost admired figures. Spanning more than three centuries, theseletters contain enduring lessons in life and love, character andcompassion 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 hisson, a cadet at West Point, about what it means to be a goodsoldier; W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter about character beneath thecolor of skin; Oscar Hammerstein about why, after all his success,he doesn’t stop working; Woody Guthrie from a New Jersey asylum tonine-year-old Arlo about universal human frailty;sixty-five-year-old Laura Ingalls Wilder’s
