Description: Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. Mintz gives readers the first comprehensive history of American childhood, encompassing both the child's and the adult's tumultuous early years of life.
Brief description: Steven Mintz is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of the University of Texas System's Institute for Transformational Learning.
Review Quotes: [A] provocative, anecdote-packed analysis of American parents and their progeny. From Puritans to postmoderns, we have shaped our kids to match shifting cultural mores and social desires.--Char Miller "San Antonio Express-News" (1/16/2005 12:00:00 AM)