{"product_id":"letters-to-jackie-condolences-from-a-grieving-nation-isbn-9780061969829","title":"Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A terrific, original, and important work….Fitzpatrick provides a stunningly fresh look at the impact of JFK’s assassination on the American people.”\u003cbr\u003e—Doris Kearns Goodwin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor \u003cem\u003eLetters to Jackie\u003c\/em\u003e, noted historian and News Hour with Jim Lehrer commentator Ellen Fitzpatrick combed through literally thousands of condolence messages sent by ordinary Americans to Jacqueline Kennedy following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, in 1963. The first book ever to examine this extraordinary collection, \u003cem\u003eLetters to Jackie\u003c\/em\u003e presents 250 intimate, heartfelt, eye-opening responses to what was arguably the most devastating event in twentieth century America, providing a fascinating perspective on a singular time in the history of our nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eAs seen on \u003cem\u003eNBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\u003c\/em\u003e, CNN, MSNBC, and in the \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe, New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is perhaps the most memorable event of the twentieth century: the assassination of president John F. Kennedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin seven weeks of president Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy received more than 800,000 condolence letters. Two years later, the volume of correspondence would exceed 1.5 million letters. For the next forty-six years, the letters would remain essentially untouched.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, in her selection of 250 of these astonishing letters, historian Ellen Fitzpatrick reveals a remarkable human record of that devastating moment, of Americans across generations, regions, races, political leanings, and religions, in mourning and crisis. Reflecting on their sense of loss, their fears, and their hopes, the authors of these letters wrote an elegy for the fallen president that captured the soul of the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Ellen Fitzpatrick’s wonderful book — which is both a perceptive history of the public response to John Kennedy’s death and a selection of the millions of letters that followed the assassination — is a remarkable window into the character of the nation in the 1960s.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Brinkley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a terrific, original, and important work, the perfect match between subject and author. With an historian’s grasp of time and place and a novelist’s feel for drama and detail, Fitzpatrick provides a stunningly fresh look at the impact of JFK’s assassination on the American people.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoris Kearns Goodwin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887968940261,"sku":"NP9780061969829","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061969829.jpg?v=1730227847","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/letters-to-jackie-condolences-from-a-grieving-nation-isbn-9780061969829","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}