[goldstategop]

I would have preferred a 2,000 page tome. You mean you couldn't compete with the Oxford Companion To United States History? On second thought, I'm glad it wasn't another encyclopedia

[LS]

You should see how much we cut! Originally, I don't even know the word length, but we had to cut it by 1/3, then in the last moments, we had to chop another 20,000 words. We lost a lot of "social history," music, art, lit., and sidebards that were interesting, but, alas, expendable!