July 11, 2008
The Prairie Agenda; The Hidden History of the Tomboy; Road Trip
Mothers who read aloud from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie (1935) and its sequels may believe they are spoon-feeding their children the books' timeless frontier values — but an antigovernment agenda? It's not impossible, says Anita Clair Fellman in Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American Culture (University of Missouri Press), given how engagingly — and subtly — Wilder intertwines family morals with conservative
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