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Santella, Andrew
4 Reviews
(3)
4-6
Santella traces the history of presidential airplane use from FDR, who was the first American president to enlist a plane for conducting diplomacy, to George W. Bush. The text focuses on the planes' physical features and on the nine presidents' uses for their planes. The matter-of-fact narrative is supplemented by sidebars and black-and-white and color photos. Websites. Ind.
Reviewer: Jack Forman
(3)
4-6
Cornerstones of Freedom series.
Reconstruction discusses the political and civil rights climate in Congress and in the South following the Civil War. Mount Rushmore provides a look at the almost twenty-year process of the sculpting of this national monument. The large-type texts are both supported by well-reproduced archival photos, sketches, and political cartoons. Time lines are included. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Barbara Barstow
(4)
4-6
Book Report Biography series.
"The best thing that ever happened to hockey" is the hyperbolic way Santella describes ice hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky. This adulatory tone permeates the biography, which is filled with play action from Gretzky's record-setting career and descriptions of his impressive accomplishments. Supplemented with black-and-white photos, the text briefly discusses his family life, but the emphasis is on his hockey feats. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Jack Forman
(4)
4-6
Cornerstones of Freedom series.
The factual circumstances of Robert Kennedy's assassination and the shootings at Kent State are related in plainspoken texts illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Although the books lack emotion and drama, they serve as basic introductions to these key events from the 1960s. Time lines are included. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.
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