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1970s (Take Ten Years)

Clint Twist · 1992
76/100
👍 Worth It

A real school-library workhorse: Evans Brothers' Take Ten Years series walks kids through the decade year by year in news-report format — Vietnam, Roe v. Wade, Mother Teresa's Nobel — in 48 tight pages. Long out of print, but used copies run a few dollars and the Internet Archive lends it free. For a homework-age kid who needs the 1970s to make sense fast, this beats a Wikipedia spiral. Worth it as the cheap used find it now is.

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Verdict receipt0–100
safety85
substance78
craft72
originality65
accuracy85
Penny’s verdict76
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