Pardon that turkey / Sloate, Susan

Tells the story of how Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, campaigned for a national day of thanksgiving which was finally enacted by President Lincoln, and discusses the tradition of having the U.S. president grant a pardon to the turkey given him by the National Turkey Federation.

"Everyone knows the story of the Pilgrims, but there's more to Thanksgiving than that! This is the tale of one woman's fight for a national holiday and how the president came to pardon a turkey every year." -- cover [p. 4].