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The Arizona Historical Society
(October 16, 2009)
360 pages
ISBN: 978-0910037501

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  • Reported in The Nation
  • Reported in the Akron Daily Democrat
  • Reported in the Washington Post
  • When Americans Stopped Writing Letters

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    Reported in The Nation

    January 15, 2011 by abadmin

    November 11, 1897

    The Revolt Against Bossism

    “This year the bosses threw off all disguise. They declared that bossism is the ideal perfection of government in a democracy. [Mark] Hanna summed up their creed in these orders to his subjects a few days before the election:

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    Filed Under: Mark Hanna - His Life

    Reported in the Akron Daily Democrat

    March 30, 2010 by abadmin Leave a Comment

    September 27, 1902 

    Mark Hanna kicked off his presidential campaign in Akron, Ohio with a parade featuring live elephants. Event organizers “wore looks of suppressed satisfaction” even though the “elephants did not arrive until the last minute…”

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    Filed Under: Mark Hanna - His Life

    Reported in the Washington Post

    December 16, 2009 by abadmin Leave a Comment

    September 13, 1885
    “Mark Hanna, of Cleveland, is the most objectionable and snobbish Republican in the State.”

    February 16, 1904
    Mark Hanna was “one of the country’s great men” whose death “caused profound sorrow in all quarters.”

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    Filed Under: Mark Hanna - His Life

    When Americans Stopped Writing Letters

    January 15, 2009 by abadmin

    “The Lost Art of Letter-Writing” (An article appearing in The Nation on November 11, 1897)

    Over a century ago, some people feared that the venerable practice of writing letters was doomed. One culprit – a shocking advance in technology. “The fact is the telegraph has killed letters.”   The editors of The Nation saw the risk, but still had hope. They believed the “long and tiresome letter…may have gone” but that letter-writing as “an art…cultivated by the discerning” would continue.

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    Filed Under: Mark Hanna - His Times

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