Two Miserable Presidents by Steve Sheinkin
Reviewed by BridgetRatings
Content Ratings based on a 0-5 scale where
0 = no objectionable content and
5 = an excessive or disturbing level of content
LANGUAGE
VIOLENCE
SEXUAL CONTENT
ADULT THEMES
Illustrator: Tim Robinson
Ratings Explanation
Violence: The Civil War.
Adult Themes: War, death, and deplorable conditions for soldiers and P.O.W.’s. Jefferson Davis’ five year old son slipped off a balcony to his death.
Synopsis
An entertaining, captivating and completely digestible civil war history book.
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” – William T. Sherman
Sheinkin, formerly a textbook writer, collected stories: good, funny, amazing, inspiring, surprising, and disgustingly true stories. He has succeeded in writing an entertaining, captivating and completely digestible civil war history book. I highly recommend “Two Miserable Presidents – The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War”! My sixth grader is currently held hostage by this fabulous book!
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