Letters of the Century America, 1900-1999

In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, LETTERS OF THE CENTURY encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last hundred years. In these pages our century's most celebrated figures from Mark Twain to Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin to Franklin Roosevelt become everyday people, and everday people become part of history. Here is a veteran's wrenching letter left at the Vietnam Wall, a poignant correspondence between two women trying to become mothers, a heartbreaking letter from an AIDS sufferer telling his parents how he wants to be buried, and an indignant e-mail from a PC user to his on- line server. Arranged chronologically by decade, illustrated with over a hundred photographs, LETTERS OF THE CENTURY creates an extraordinary chronicle of our history through the voices of the men and women who have lived its greatest moments.