Shaw, Robert

Provides information about the history of quiltmaking in America from the late-eighteenth-century up to the beginning of the twenty-first-century. Describes the cultural significance and evolution of quilts into an art form. Includes color photographs and an index.

Argues that modern parents have gradually adopted attitudes and practices that result in joyless, selfish, and sometimes dangerously alienated children, and tells parents what they need to do to reverse the trend.