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Winifred Gallagher

Biography

Winifred Gallagher

Winifred Gallagher‘s books include JUST THE WAY YOU ARE: How Heredity and Experience Create the Individual, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and THE POWER OF PLACE: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions. She has written for many magazines, from The Atlantic Monthly to Rolling Stone. She lives in Manhattan and Long Eddy, New York.

Winifred Gallagher

Books by Winifred Gallagher

How the Post Office Created America: A History
by Winifred Gallagher - History, Nonfiction

The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor. This was no conventional mail network, but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind 13 quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen --- a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries.