Overview

This cartoon guide to US history begins in the English colonies and continues to the present day. The book presents such milestones in US history as the House of Burgesses, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Civil War, the Great Depression, the labour and civil rights movements, American expansion and the Gulf War. Larry Gonick is the author of ""The Cartoon History of the Universe"".

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9780062730985

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A perfect gift for that teenager who simply can't get American history straight . . . -- San Francisco Chronicle Gonick's irreverent humor is effective . . . the text sparkles . . . -- Los Angeles Times . . . a vital, dynamic, and consistently challenging panorama of our past. -- The Comics Journal

Author Information

Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, math, and other big subjects for more than forty years. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics), a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College.

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