(i)The World Turned Upside Down(i) as seminal work was a shock and disappointment to people who would've rather curl up and read what the young adults would be facing politically. 

     Military commanders and directors of this, that, and the other thing were cornering wild horses and automatons alike.  "No time for reading where you're going."  A to-be-shadowed flung it into a pile of (i)would've read its(i).