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McGuffey Readers sold 122,000,000 copies and exerted profound moral and cultural effect in mid 19th-century America. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 509] See : Education How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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One site encapsulates these arguments: "The McGuffey Readers were a better reading system than anything that exists in a school today . Having been printed on silk handkerchiefs, appropriated by Currier & Ives, included in the McGuffey Reader, and, thanks to Thomas Edison, reproduced in the first recorded words of human speech, the rhyme now appears in an utterly charming hardcover edition. Whether students read the McGuffey Reader, Hilliard's Reader, Barnes' Reader, or the Monroe Reader, they were sure to encounter treatments of these emotions. |
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