Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Literacy Debates and Dangers
Chapter 2: The Geography of Rural Reading
Chapter 3: Reaching Readers with the Wisconsin Idea
Chapter 4: Reading-for Whom, and What?
Chapter 5: Children, Teacher, and the Rural School
Chapter 6: What to Read: Children’s Choices
Chapter 7: Women, Print, and Domesticity
Chapter 8: Winners and Losers: The Referendum and Its Aftermath
Chapter 9: Epilogue
Appendix 1. Wisconsin Free Library Commission Statistics
Appendix 2. The D-K Database
Index
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