Textbooks

textbooks, to illustrate the general skimpiness, dullness, and bias of this curse (with a few honorable exceptions) to American rising generation wallows confusedly in a morass of educationist mediocrity and prejudice, in its school manuals.

On this occasion, I choose a text book in American history, Building of Our Nation, by Professors Eugene C. Barker, Henry Steele Commager, and Walter P. Webb (Row, Peterson and Co., 1961, 368 pp.). If you wade through this, you weep when you don’t sleep.