Dwight D. Eisenhower: Letters from a New Jersey Schoolgirl

Dear Mr. President

by Kathleen Karr

The twelve-year-old daughter of a chicken farmer in South Jersey corresponds with President Eisenhower about communism, the atomic bomb, and Senator McCarthy. Includes a brief biography of the president and information about the postal service in the 1950s.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published May 10, 2002

About the author

Kathleen Karr was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and grew up on a chicken farm in Dorothy, New Jersey. After escaping to college, she worked in the film industry, and also taught in high school and college. She seriously began writing fiction on a dare from her husband. After honing her skills in women’s fiction, her children asked her to write a book for them, (It Ain’t Always Easy, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990), and she discovered she loved writing for young readers.