by Richard Rhodes
Simon & Schuster, 1987
886 pp. $22.95
by Marvin Minsky
Simon & Schuster, 1987
339 pp. $19.95
Edited
and introduced by Sian Miles. Weidenfeld
& Nicolson, 1987. 290 pp. $8.95
By Neil Postman. Penguin,
1987. 184 pp. $6.95
By Bertram Wyatt-Brown.
Oxford, 1987. 270 pp. $7.95
by Cathy N. Davidson
Oxford, 1987
322 pp. $22.95
Alain Corbin Harvard, 1986 307 pp. $25
WQ SPRING 1987
164
educator Charles Willie: "By idolizing those whom we honor, we fail to realize that we could go and do likewise."
In eight crisp essays, Demos, a Yale historian, looks back at difficulties that continue to beset the American family. This perspective allows him to dismiss a number of popular notions. One is that child abuse is an enduring problem in our society. In truth, he finds, it was rare in Colonial New England; when i...