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Title: Posterity : Letters of Great Americans to Their Children by DORIE MCCULLOUGH LAWSON ISBN: 0-385-50330-X Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Deeply Satisfying, Cleverly Organized Collection
Comment: I was initially put off by the "high concept" execution of the book, but the selection of the letters and the breadth of the authors is enormously satisfying and deeply moving. The book is another reminder of the rich inner life we have lost in our world of email and voicemail, as revealed in the warm, funny, eclectic and eccentric voices of the famous speaking to their loved ones. In books about families, I'm very fond of "I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets," by Bruce Stockler, a fresh, memorable story of living a life turned upside down, and "Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir," by Richard Cohen.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lovely. Moving, Entertaining Look Inside Families
Comment: I'm not a big fan of the genre of letters literature, but this book completely surprised and enthralled me. The obvious hook is the eclectic group of thinkers, from Thomas Edison and Jack London to Moe Howard from the Three Stooges and Woody Guthrie. Each writer reveals a profound love of family, children, sense of humor and warmth that is collectively astonishing and heartbreaking. (...)
Rating: 4
Summary: A GLIMPSE INTO HEARTS AND MINDS
Comment: In this day of email and instant messaging does anyone ever take the time to write a longhand letter? What will future generations have to reference in order to learn more about us, who we were and what we thought? Well, I don't have the answer to those questions but I do know that today we can read the letters of some very distinguished people who did take the time to advise, order or console their children via pen and ink.
Yes, the writers of the letters contained in this volume are famous Americans, but they are also very much like all of us when it comes to our offspring. What a privilege it is to be able to read these letters and in that way perhaps know a little more about what was in the writers' hearts and minds.
The letters are arranged by theme, from "Continuity" to "Rules To Live By," and each letter is preceded by a brief biographical sketch.
We find Albert Einstein writing to Hans Albert Einstein, "What I have achieved through such a lot of strenuous work shall not only be there for strangers but especially for my own boys.....I am very pleased that you find joy with the piano. This and carpentry are in my opinion for your age the best pursuits......"
Sam Houston tells Sam, Jr. of a mother's love: "Your Ma loves you more than she does any one else, so you should love her, more than any one." While John Adams sends a note of caution to John Quincy Adams: "...Go and see with how little Wisdom this World is governed."
In moments of discouragement Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote to Georgiana Stowe: "Why have n't I written? Because, dear Georgie, I am like the dry, dead leafless tree, and have only cold, dead, slumbering buds of hope on the end of stiff, hard, frozen twigs of thought, but no leaves, no blossoms...."
"Posterity" offers a collective portrait of who we were. It's a book that can be picked up and enjoyed a page at a time, and it's one you'll want to refer to again and again.
- Gail Cooke
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Title: Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts ISBN: 0060090251 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Enduring Ties: Poems of Family Relationships by Grant Hardy ISBN: 158642064X Publisher: Steerforth Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: We Are Our Mothers' Daughters by Cokie Roberts ISBN: 0688169678 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism by Bob Edwards ISBN: 0471477532 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 09 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit & Wisdom From History's Greatest Wordsmiths by Mardy Grothe ISBN: 0060536993 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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