Dogs Love The Way of Improvement Leads Home

A reader from western Pennsylvania reports that my book The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America has had a wonderful effect on his family dog, Hank.  The reader’s son claims that the very phrase, “The Way of Improvement Leads Home” has had a certain calming (soothing?) effect on Hank and has “made him a better dog.”  (True story–you can’t make this stuff up!).

Here is Hank with his favorite book:

Get your copy today.  (Pet Smart executives: Are you reading this?).

Do you have an animal that loves The Way of Improvement Leads Home?  If so, send us a picture and we will post it on the blog.

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