I was delighted to find this little booklet. Mr. Van Loon is one of my favorites. I was so excited. I wondered how he was going to deal with the title subject in such a short space - four chapters.
Well, he didn't really. In typical Hendrik fashion he set the subject up in a simple but clever way. It took three chapters. I thought I might be going to get a proposal for tidying up the partisan-ness that we see in American government, for enjoying it and for making it work without the resorting to personal rancor, the utter refusal to listen or the telling of blatant lies. Didn't happen! Chapter four waltzed off on to a different subject completely. I felt that the work presented in this pamphlet might have been intended as the beginning of another Van Loon book. Now that could have been fun.
Still, it is vintage Van Loon language and syntax. I love it for that. And for his illustrations! ( )