Goode's Atlas
Two of Goode’s former students (Leppard and Espenshade) helped him create Goode’s School Atlas (later retitled Goode’s World Atlas), first published in 1923 by Rand McNally. Goode claimed that “very square inch in the map represents the same number of square miles of the earth’s surface as any other square inch in the map”(Schulten p187). The atlas is still published today, now in its 21st edition.
By 1928, under failing health and 66 years old, Goode had a heart attack. On August 5, 1932, John Paul Goode died at age 69 (Hass and Ward p246).
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