From the back cover:

"In this engaging history, Tamara Plakins Thornton traces handwriting in America from colonial times to the present. Exploring such subjects as penmanship pedagogy, handwriting experts, and calligraphy revivals, Thornton investigates the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting, showing, for example, how it came to be linked with individual identity and how in our times handwriting reflects a nostalgia for the past and a rejection of modernity."

• Publisher : Yale University Press; n Later printing edition (May 25, 1998)
• Language : English
• Paperback : 264 pages
• ISBN-10 : 0300074417
• ISBN-13 : 978-0300074413
• Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
• Dimensions : 9.22 x 6.1 x 0.68 inches