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This fun and surprising book goes beyond words and lets numbers tell the story! In a fresh infographic approach, fascinating facts about U.S. presidential elections take a new twist and are explained by the numbers. Vivid and colorful stats, charts, tables, and graphs breathe new life into all things electoral.
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Mary Hertz Scarbrough
Mary Hertz Scarbrough has written more than two dozen fiction and nonfiction books for young readers. Her first book for Capstone Press, Heroes of the American Revolution, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. She practiced law for 10 years and has taught writing and constitutional law. She loves to unearth little-known facts and particularly enjoys researching and writing about history and other social studies topics. She lives in Brookings, South Dakota.
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