Type of bind: Hardcover
Label: Random House c
Manufacturer: Random House c
Printing Date: 1959
Publishing house: Random House c
Sale Popularity Level: 2145653
Studio: Random House c
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Many, many years ago Random House published a series of more than 100 books called "Landmark Books". These were short histories of a little more than 150 pages that were long on action and short on historical analysis.
Nevertheless, these were this history teacher's very first introduction to written history. The library in Hope, Indiana had a whole shelf of these books and I happily read about Daniel Boone and the Alamo and John Paul Jones. I happened across this one at a middle school library clearance.
The book delivers as I remember - lots of action and not much into the motivations of Francis Marion and the others who hid in the swamps of South Carolina with him and fought the British Army. That's okay, though. It's aimed at middle schoolers/upper elementary students and they don't care much for analysis anyway. Better to get them an appealing taste of history and let the whys and the wherefores fill themselves in later on.
I give this one a grade of B+ (based on a sliding scale - it is a history book aimed at kids, for Pete's sake)
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