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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I got to read The Hardy Boys back before they got changed.
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Didn't we have this discussion before and find that the books were edited even before those sixties copies you guys had read? These books began publication in the 1920's after all.
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The Hardy Boys volumes were extensively revised beginning in 1959 at the insistence of publishers Grosset & Dunlap, and against the wishes of Harriet Adams. The revision project, which also encompassed the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, was sparked largely by letters that parents had been writing to Grosset & Dunlap since at least 1948, complaining about the prevalence of racial stereotypes in the books.
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I have a hard time getting too het up about revising books that were created and owned by a syndicate and written by ghostwriters from the beginning. Nancy and the Boys have their place. But great works of art they ain't.