A practically irresistible new U.S. history was published this week. It was in tabloid newspaper style and format as if the history were happening while it was read (see cut).
News of the Nation by Sylvan Hoffman and C. Hartley Grattan (Garden City; $3.49) might turn out to be a revolution in text-teaching. It is almost certain to be a huge favorite of parlor readers and guessing-gamesters. It consists of 41 four-page tabloid editions which bring vivid immediacy to events from Columbus' discovery through Pearl Harbor.
Thus, the hanging of Captain Kidd...
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