The Little Big Book Of America (Little Big Book (New York, N.Y.), 11.)

Rating:
Summary: Lovely design, but marred by political correctness
Review: This square-shaped gift book is anything but square when it comes to its political content. In a section on "Villains," the author lists Richard Nixon side-by-side with Jeffrey Dahmer, Lee Harvey Oswald, and William Manson. Our nation's noble attempt to defend South Vietnam is denounced and no mention is made of the Communist genocide in Cambodia or of the Communist's bloody rule in South Vietnam. You won't find any quotes in the book from any Republican after Lincoln. Cocaine dealer Abbie Hoffman is quoted approvingly beside Jefferson, Edison, Lincoln, and Stephen Hawking who I believe is British, not American. And based on the quotes from American Indians, such as Powhatan, you'd think that they were all as innocent as lambs, which is odd considering that he himself kept slaves.

Rating:
Summary: Lovely design, but marred by political correctness
Review: This square-shaped gift book is anything but square when it comes to its political content. In a section on "Villains," the author lists Richard Nixon side-by-side with Jeffrey Dahmer, Lee Harvey Oswald, and William Manson. Our nation's noble attempt to defend South Vietnam is denounced and no mention is made of the Communist genocide in Cambodia or of the Communist's bloody rule in South Vietnam. You won't find any quotes in the book from any Republican after Lincoln. Cocaine dealer Abbie Hoffman is quoted approvingly beside Jefferson, Edison, Lincoln, and Stephen Hawking who I believe is British, not American. And based on the quotes from American Indians, such as Powhatan, you'd think that they were all as innocent as lambs, which is odd considering that he himself kept slaves.