Postcard Century: Cards and Their Messages 1900-2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (1989) These discoveries radically changed our

These discoveries radically changed our notions of the world and our place in it

A New York Times bestseller

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Postcard Century: Cards and Their Messages 1900-2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (1989) These discoveries radically changed ourThe Postcard Century tells the story of the last hundred years in the 1900s' own words and images. Two thousand picture postcards and their messages give a vivid account of the day to day life of people and of what mattered to them, pleased them, shocked or amused them via the cards they chose to send. Year by year, the high and mighty, the low and worthy, and everyone in between talk of the characters, events, and hot spots of the century. Jokes from