"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, "Obviously one of the great books of all time." And modern civilization's most recent act is no less enthralling.

Author: Larry Gonick
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 10/06/2009
Series: Cartoon Guide
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.28h x 7.32w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780060760083


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/12/2009 pg. 37
Booklist 10/15/2009 pg. 32
School Library Journal 11/01/2009 pg. 143
Library Journal 01/15/2010 pg. 81

About the Author
Gonick, Larry: -

Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain math, history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine. He lives in San Francisco, California.