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32 pp.
| Candlewick |
October, 1999 |
TradeISBN 0-7636-0491-7$$16.99
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4-6
A newspaper format is used to explore the history of four political revolutions. The oversized pages, illustrated with color artwork, use fictional contemporaneous articles, editorials, and even advertisements to provide a superficial view of the American and French revolutions in the eighteenth century, as well as the twentieth-century Russian and Chinese upheavals. The journalistic angle makes the volume entertaining, if slight. Ind.