Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood.(Book review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Zuckerman, Michael | Copyright information

Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. By Steven Mintz (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. v plus 445 pp. $29.95).

The blurbs on the back of the book jacket come from commanding figures in the field, and they all converge on one point: Huck's Raft is the best synthesis we have of the history of youth in America.

I do not dispute their concurrence. Mintz's mastery of the secondary literature of American childhood across the sweep of four cent...

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