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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cartoon History of the Universe - recommended?
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.020631.17114@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <27320.27617a6d@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <503@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <1990Dec13.190856.19914@athena.mit.edu> <10128@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 90 02:06:31 GMT

In article <10128@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> mcohen@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Michael Cohen) writes:
>it tries to tell the way things (probably) actually happened, as opposed
>to the glossed over, handed-down-through-the-ages stories about how things
>were supposed to have happened.  For that reason alone, I found it to be
>very interesting and entertaining...

Gonick has several other books out that are also very much worth reading,
for similar reasons.  Notably, a two-volume Cartoon History of the United
States [I don't vouch for the title, but that is roughly right] which is
excellent.  Note, these are not comic-format books, they're slim trade
paperbacks.
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