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Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the True Story of an American Feud
32 pp.
| Dutton |
December, 2011 |
TradeISBN 978-0-525-47903-1$16.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Larry Day.
This frothy follow-up to George Did It shrinks the title statesmen's rivalry into a personality clash, removing much of the politics from a political story; for all its focus on conflict, the book avoids difficult topics. Day's watercolors are lively caricatures with some fine effects, such as a spread of the Continental Congress crowding around Jefferson as he writes the Declaration of Independence.