More Thermidorian propaganda, 2008 (for U.S. schoolchildren)?

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I've just come across (whilst googling) a new book FOR CHILDREN called "Robespierre, Master of the Guillotine". The cover has what is easily the worst caricature of him I've ever seen (looking like a butch country squire), with the word 'Tyrant' graffiti'd across it in big blue letters, lest yer be in any doubt. It's in the 'Wicked History' series, which I presume is the U.S. equivalent of the G.B. 'Horrible Histories', and it looks like every damn library in the U.S. has a copy. It hasn't infested these shores yet, and there are no reviews on line, so, who knows, it may just be that it's using words like that as a marketing ploy to entice gore-minded children to read it, only to inform them in a lucid manner that Robespierre wasn't anything like the cackling baddie you see in all the films, etc..
But I doubt it.

Comments

[bib-specialist.livejournal.com]

I always thought Robespierre looked like Bob Hope.

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Excuse me while I throw up a little. -_-



I. Just. AGH.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

That.

Is.

Just.

Not.

Possible.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

No. Just.... no. This is truly illness inducing. *gags* But why, oh why, am I not surprised. D:

[sunliner.livejournal.com]

That is... wrong. On so many levels.

[citoyenneclark.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Oh what have they done now. It proves that the Thermidorians are writing from the grave. (perhaps they are ghostwriting it?) :) Thank goodness I have yet to see one in a library. Travesty! Even horrible histories didn't sink THAT low!

[emma1794.livejournal.com]

Oh God, not again. Why does this keep happening?!?!

I love Horrible Histories; they practically began my interest in History, but let's hope they don't bring out a GB version of this rubbish. :(

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

There is another children's book about Robespierre aptly named Robespierre and the French Revolution by Tom McGowen. I skimmed through it once at my library and I felt it was fairly decent. Some of the old stereotypes and such, but I think it being somewhat balanced. Certainly no "tyrant!" scrawled across in giant letters.