Cat.No: 195272 The McGuffey readers, selections from the 1879 edition. Edited with an introduction by Elliott J. Gorn. Elliott J. Gorn, ed.

The McGuffey readers, selections from the 1879 edition. Edited with an introduction by Elliott J. Gorn

Boston: Bedford / St. Martin's, 1998. Paperback. xv, 202p., softbound, 8x5.5 inch wraps, textual and pictorial selections, very good condition. The Bedford series in history and culture.

From p.31: "Even in their golden age, the McGuffey readers were never simply a snapshot of nineteenth-century America. A better metaphor is to think of them as a map for building a national culture, one drawn by bourgeois Protestants who were white, largely descended from English and Western Eruropean stock, and who expected the country to be just like them"

Cat.No: 195272
ISBN: 0312133987

Price: $12.00