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- catalog abstract "William Holmes McGuffey -- teacher, preacher, college president, writer, educational reformer, and schoolbook compiler -- is perhaps the most important figure in the history of American public education, yet very few people know much about the man himself. Except for a few letters, a pair of handwritten sermons, and one unpublished manuscript on moral philosophy, his known writings are few. This book makes available some of those scarce writings as it looks at the man and his textbooks. It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1920, placing their sales in a class with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. Indeed, since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some thirty thousand copies a year. - Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b1373929.
- catalog created "c1978.".
- catalog date "1978".
- catalog date "c1978.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1978.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Schoolmaster for the nation? -- Biographical reflections -- America's most popular schoolbooks -- Exemplary lessons from McGuffey's readers.".
- catalog description "William Holmes McGuffey -- teacher, preacher, college president, writer, educational reformer, and schoolbook compiler -- is perhaps the most important figure in the history of American public education, yet very few people know much about the man himself. Except for a few letters, a pair of handwritten sermons, and one unpublished manuscript on moral philosophy, his known writings are few. This book makes available some of those scarce writings as it looks at the man and his textbooks. It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1920, placing their sales in a class with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. Indeed, since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some thirty thousand copies a year. - Jacket.".
- catalog extent "206 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0687238501".
- catalog issued "1978".
- catalog issued "c1978.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Nashville : Abingdon,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "Educators United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "McGuffey, William Holmes, 1800-1873.".
- catalog subject "Moral education United States History.".
- catalog subject "PE1117.M23 W4".
- catalog subject "Readers History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Readers History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Schoolmaster for the nation? -- Biographical reflections -- America's most popular schoolbooks -- Exemplary lessons from McGuffey's readers.".
- catalog title "McGuffey and his readers : piety, morality, and education in nineteenth-century America / John H. Westerhoff III.".
- catalog type "text".