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.

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[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

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



I. Just. AGH.

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Oh god. That's the one. Even the coat is wrong! I read a thing yesterday about authors reading their reviews on Amazon and getting depressed - assuming the book's as bad as the cover, there's always the joy of putting a nasty review on Amazon. Well, it's revenge of a sort (I've got to post one on Simon Schama on Amazon at some point).

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

WTF, he looks like a more assymmetrical version of Thomas Jefferson. My mind, it is broken. D:

[gogo-sakura.livejournal.com]

I personally approve of the shifty look in his eyes.