After reviewing «Babywise,» noted
social historian Stephanie Coontz, author of «The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap» and «The Way We Really Are:
Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families» (Basic Books), says that she is able to understand how some parents are drawn to Ezzo's advice.
Bedford: One major consequence of that survey show, which I think we're only beginning to see bear fruit, is roughly as follows: yes, your career has become more extraordinary; yes, the paintings have become even better, as the pavilion will demonstrate; and yes, you've been able to spread your wings in terms of
social practice, but you've also forced a wedge into the history of art that has revealed afresh your genuine predecessors: Norman Lewis, Sam Gilliam, Jack Whitten, Melvin Edwards, Alma Thomas — these people have become differently visible as a consequence of the need among museums and art
historians to account for where you
came from.