Mary Theroux tells what caused America to veer away from its early years of freedom

Melinda Pillsbury-Foster and her guest Mary Theroux review key events like the U.S. Civil War that transformed America from a freedom-loving nation toward fascism.

Mary L. G. Theroux is Senior Vice President of The Independent Institute and has served as director of nine corporations and three foundations. Articles about Ms. Theroux have appeared in Business Week, Forbes, Savvy, Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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McGuffey Readers
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McGuffey Readers were a series of graded primers that were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and in homeschooling.