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Before the internet, students turned to Cliff's Notes. The black-and-yellow study guides helped generations understand classic literature. Did you know the company called Nebraska home? Curious Nebraska producer Andy Hermann provides a summary. Guests, in order of appearance: Jim McKee, former advertising and sales manager, Cliff's Notes; Linda Hillegass, daughter, Clifton and Catherine Hillegass; Ken Price, Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, Co-Director of the Walt Whitman Archive, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Additional audio: excerpt from Nebraska Nightly on the Nebraska Public Radio Network (April 16, 1997), reported by Carolyn Johnsen. Special thanks to Alexis Scargill, Media Archivist, Nebraska Public Media.
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