Glenn Adamson

"A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day"-- Examine any phase of our nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there: from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmiths who hurled tea into Boston Harbor, to today's "maker movement." Adamson shows that craft has long been implicated in debates around equality, education,...