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The Buck Stops Here: The Presidents of the United States
64 pp.
| Viking |
September, 2010 |
TradeISBN 978-0-670-01252-7$18.99 New ed. (1990, Harper)
(2)
K-3
This twentieth-anniversary edition of Provensen's overview of U.S. presidents (updated through President Obama) depicts each man surrounded by symbols, placards, headlines, and other materials that illustrate his administration. The drawings have a primitive, cluttered charm. The short verses are sometimes funny and sometimes acute character sketches. Appended notes expand the text. First class for browsing. Bib.