Gary Cross, Author . Columbia Univ. $29.50 (316p) ISBN 978-0-231-14430-8
Cross, a professor of history at Penn State University, seeks the contemporary social puzzle of why men are refusing to grow up and commit to marriage and family. With declining marriage statistics, Cross (The Cute and the Cool
) explains that these
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Gary Cross, Author Columbia University Press $83.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-231-11312-0
According to this absorbing cultural history of how Americans' personal and public identities have evolved in relationship with consumer goods, the battle between consumerism and anti-consumerism has been a defining struggle of 20th-century life....
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Gary Cross, Author Harvard University Press $31 (352p) ISBN 978-0-674-89830-1
An image keeps coming to mind in this compelling study: two grown-ups squabbling over an ever-morphing toy. One is the American parent; the other, the American toymaker. Guess who's winning. Cross, a professor of history at Penn State, is a wise and
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