Spreading the News

The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse

Richard R. John

  • Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Postal System as an Agent of Change

The Communications Revolution

Completing the Network

The Imagined Community

The Invasion of the Sacred

The Wellspring of Democracy

The Interdiction of Dissent

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Sources

Index

  • Cover: Spreading the News