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• ISBN 10: 1641601639
• ISBN 13: 9781641601634
• Author: Marcia Biederman

The best-known educator of the 20th century was a scammer in cashmere. “The most famous reading teacher in the world,” as television hosts introduced her, Evelyn Wood had little classroom experience, no degrees in reading instruction, and a background that included cooperation with the Third Reich. Nevertheless, a nation spooked by Sputnik and panicked by paperwork eagerly embraced her promises of a speed-reading revolution. Journalists, lawmakers and two US presidents lent credibility to Wood’s claims of turbocharging reading speeds through a method once compared to the miracle at Lourdes. A royal-born Wood grad said she’d polished off Moby Dick in three hours; a senator swore he finished one book per lunchtime. Fudging test results, and squelching critics, Wood founded a company that enrolled half a million. The course’s popularity endured even as science proved that her system taught only skimming, with disastrous effects on comprehension. As apps and online courses attempt to spark a speed-reading revival, this engaging look at Wood’s rise from missionary to marketer exposes the pitfalls of wishful thinking.

Table of contents:

1.Charm School

2. Third-Reich Interlude

3. Habits of Highly Effective Readers

4. We Have Liftoff

5. The Kid Farm

6. Bunk and Debunkers

7. Civil War

8. Consulting the Oracle

9. Times Are A-Changin’

10. Snake in the Grass

11. White Knight

12. Rehab

13. Carved in Stone

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