The United States is at a crucial moment in the history of literacy, a time when how well Americans read is the subject of newspaper headlines. In this insightful book, Carl F. Kaestle and his colleagues shed new light on this issue, providing a social history of literacy in America that broadens the definition of literacy and considers who was reading what, under what circumstances, and for what purposes.
The book explores diverse sources--from tests of reading ability, government surveys, and polls to nineteenth-century autobiographies and family budget studies--in order...
The United States is at a crucial moment in the history of literacy, a time when how well Americans read is the subject of newspaper headlines. In ...
