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

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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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Still, here's a happy thought! Hopefully the kids will think the opposite of whatever the authority figure/teacher tells them (I know I did, and I suppose the same must be true for a lot of people on this site). Actually, in a perverse sort of way it's good to know that Robespierre and co still scare a section of the establishment enough that they still feel the need to produce this sort of propaganda (assuming the book itself is as bad as the cover suggests).