The American Family: From Obligation to Freedom

My latest book was officially released while I was in Ghana--though I have yet to spot it at the top of any best-seller lists.

But scholars I respect a lot are saying some very nice things about it:

"As a potential textbook for courses on the history of the American family, it is superior to anything available. . . . More than a textbook, it is a well-researched, tightly argued, and clearly and lively written interpretive history. . . . he ends his masterful book with a sensitive call for balance of obligations and freedom."
Gary S. Cross, Distinguished Professor of Modern History, Penn State Univeristy

"This is an ambitious and sweeping interpretation of family history across continents and centuries. Del Mar's research reveals not so much the decline of families in an era that extols personal freedom, but their transformation into smaller units increasingly oriented toward serving individual identities, needs, and desires. . . . an impressive and convincing book."
Elliott Gorn, Professor of History and American Studies, Brown University