“From the Bastille to Baghdad,”
The Cartoon History of the World Part 2
is the conclusion (for the moment) of Larry Gonick’s award-winning and bestselling annals of humankind presented in graphic novel form. Picking up after the American Revolution, where Part 1 left off, Part 2 opens with the Enlightenment and rolls across Napoleon, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, World War I and II, and all the way to our recent imbroglios in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2
is a monumental, one might say “historic” achievement, at once edifying, irreverent, and wildly entertaining. Terry Jones of Monty Python said of the first volume of this series,
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Obviously one of the great books of all time.” And modern civilization’s most recent act is no less enthralling.