Before the bombs and bullets of World War One reshaped life as we know it, for ‘the vast majority of Americans, from east to west, north to south, the principal, if not sole, link with the national government was the postal system,’ Robert Nisbet wrote.
It’s hard to imagine life without the megastate now.
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