Sum up America in maps and charts? Wurman wasn't daunted. With the help of 17 other designers, the creator of the innovative Access guides has produced a 324-page graphic snapshot that amounts to a candy-colored encyclopedia. His hefty paperback runs from the efficiently informative (what steps must be taken by a would-be President; how our land is used) to the chilling (Kit Hinrichs' bull's-eye chart with a family laid over it to dramatize the chance of being a casualty of war) to the inspiring (Tom Wood's bar graph of the factors contributing to America's success).
--By Daniel S. Levy
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