The Way We Really Are

After exposing "the good old days" in THE WAY WE NEVER WERE, historian Stephanie Coontz now provides compelling evidence that the structure of the modern family, though much changed from the traditional model, is working better than ever. She argues that although many may miss the more hopeful economic trends of the 1950s and '60s, few would want to go back to the gender roles and race relations of those years.