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Bateman, Teresa

Red, White, Blue, and Uncle Who?: The Stories behind Some of America's Patriotic Symbols

64 pp. | Holiday | September, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-8234-1285-7 $$15.95
(4) 4-6 Illustrated by John O'Brien. Occasionally whimsical drawings enliven tidy accounts of seventeen American symbols embodied in word ("The Star-Spangled Banner," the Pledge of Allegiance), image (the flag, the bald eagle), and building or monument (the Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, Mount Rushmore). The writing is engaging but, although the author attempts to separate legend from history, she does not indicate her sources. Ind.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton

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