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304 pp.
| DK |
May, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-7894-8330-0$$29.99
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4-6
Published with the Smithsonian Institution, this formidable compendium of facts about key events and cultural movements in American history bustles with text, photos, captions, maps, drawings, sidebars, charts, and heads and subheads. Fortunately, the barrage of information is somewhat tamed by a chronological (versus alphabetical) order. The book is organized into eighteen chapters and enlists a color-coding system. Ind.