Books, Arts & Manners: The Family, RIP?

From Cottage to Work Station: The Family’s Search for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age, by Allan Carlson (Ignatius, 181 pp., $12.95)

THE good, albeit old, news is that Allan Carlson knows more and understands more about the decline of the American family than just about anyone else writing today. The bad news is that he has just about given up hope.

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From Cottage to Work Station: The Family’s Search for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age, by Allan Carlson (Ignatius, 181 pp., $12.95)

THE good, albeit old, news is that Allan Carlson knows more and understands more about the decline of the American family than just about anyone else writing today. The bad news is that he has just about given up hope.