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Prepared by earlier reviews, I didn’t find the state-by-state repetitions contained in the book so terribly annoying. Repetition does appear to be an innate quality of Stein’s writing though. (According to the book jacket, Stein is, among many other things, a playwright. What a surprise.) The book is chock-full of illuminating and nicely-rendered maps. Also, Stein writes like the geography teacher you wish you had in seventh grade. His historical tidbits and even his physical descriptions of the states are entertaining. All too often, Stein catches one state in a creepy embrace with another.
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