Knitting America: A Glorious Heritage from Warm Socks to High Art

Knitting America: A Glorious Heritage from Warm Socks to High Art by Susan M. Strawn is a beautiful book with pictures and sidebars on every page. Also included are 20 knitting patterns from different decades of American knitting. For someone looking to briefly acquaint herself with the history of knitting in America, it's a very good book because it's fun to read and to just browse through the sidebar information and enjoy the pictures.

However, it is not terribly long (although the book looks rather thick, the pages themselves are a thick paper) and one looking for lots of history might be disappointed. There's also some social commentary and a small amount of political editorializing in it, but not enough to be horribly distracting.

It makes a good coffee table book, but it will sit on a bookshelf in my home, because my coffee table is not fit for lovely coffee table books.