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How the Post Office Created America: A History PAID A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created Presort Std Rinaldi reveals how Welles Crowther, who worked in the World Trade Center, saved the lives U.S. Postage Permit No. 169 SOCIAL STUDIES America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, of several strangers on 9/11, even carrying a woman on his back down 20 flights of stairs. Staten Island, NY economic, and physical development. “Could very well become one of those classic books that are handed down through gen- “So fascinating that I could hardly put [it] down. This book is a winner, based on deep erations, for more than any book I have read in a very long time it convincingly tells the FOR HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES knowledge and research that will reach a broad audience with a story that will enhance their story of how great men and women become great….Every high school and college Eng- appreciation and understanding of the post office and its contribution to American life.”— lish teacher will want to assign it.”—Dennis Smith, author of Report from Engine Co. 82 James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author of Tried by War Penguin Press Hardcover • 224 pages • 978-1-59420-677-1 • $25.00 2017 Penguin Press Hardcover • 336 pages • 978-1-59420-500-2 • $28.00 BILL FAWCETT ADAM COHEN 101 Stumbles in the March of History Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American What If the Great Mistakes in War, Government, Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck Industry, and Economics Were Not Made? “[Imbeciles is] the story of an assault upon thousands of defenseless people seen through When asked to name a successor, Alexander the Great declared that his empire should the lens of a young woman, Carrie Buck, locked away in a Virginia state asylum. In me- go “to the strongest”…but would rival factions have descended into war if he’d been a ticulously tracing her ordeal, Cohen provides a superb history of eugenics in America, little more specific? What if the Vienna Academy of Art took a chance on a hopeful from its beginnings as an offshoot of social Darwinism—human survival of the fittest— young student named Adolf Hitler? to its rise as a popular movement, advocating the state-sponsored sterilization of ‘feeble- Bill Fawcett offers a compendium of 101 mistakes that history will never forget. minded, insane, epileptic, inebriate, criminalistics and other degenerate persons.’ ” NAL Paperback • 432 pages • 978-1-101-98704-9 • $17.00 —David Oshinksy, The New York Times Book Review (cover review) Penguin Paperback • 416 pages • 978-0-14-310999-0 • $18.00 LYNSEY ADDARIO PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, RANDALL FULLER It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War War photographer Addario’s memoir is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, The Book That Changed America in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life.