POSTERITY(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　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.

　　Dorie McCullough Lawson graduated from Middlebury
College, where she majored in history. She works and lives in
Rockport, Maine with her husband and three children. This is her
first book.