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Andrew Carroll is 35 and lives in Washington DC. Following a fire that destroyed his house and his own small collection of letters, he founded the Legacy Project, an international all-volunteer initiative to preserve wartime correspondence. He is the editor of three New York Times bestsellers: War Letters, Letters of a Nation, and In Our Own Words. He is also executive director of the American Poetry and Literacy Project, which he co-founded with the late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. In the USA he has been responsible for bringing back the "Armed Service Editions" (ASEs), which were pocket-sized editions of national bestsellers and literary classics handed out to U.S troops stationed abroad during World War II.

Books by Andrew Carroll

Here Is Where

Andrew Carroll, who is best known for massive, newsmaking cultural initiatives such as the American Poetry and Literacy Project (which has given away over a million poetry books to the public) and the Legacy Project (an unprecedented effort to preserve letters from every U.S. war) is also the author of the bestselling multimedia sensation War Letters. The genesis of Here Is Where was Carroll's discovery of a remarkable story about Edwin Booth--brother of John Wilkes Booth--saving the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. Carroll located the site of the Booth-Lincoln encounter and began compulsively identifying other unmarked historic places throughout America. Here is Where recounts his initial journey which required him to drive, fly, boat, bike, hike, kayak and train across the country--and into America's great forgotten past. Even readers who don't consider themselves history buffs will be amazed by the hidden history Carroll uncovered.

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Behind The Lines

A powerful collection of war letters from around the world

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