Book: Embattled Paradise: The American Family In An Age Of Uncertainty Was there really a golden age of the family in the 1950s--or ever? Research psychologist Arlene Skolnick probes and challenges our assumptions about the past, present, and future of the family. "Down with nostalgia, up with reality. . . . It won't be, and never was, anything like 'Ozzie and Harriet'".--"Kirkus Reviews". "Wise, thoughtful, and gracefully written".--"Women's Review of Books".
Was there really a golden age of the family in the 1950s--or ever? This penetrating history of the American family mounts a withering criticism of the "culture of nostalgia" that clouds current debate and offers a plan for reconstituting the American family dream.
Details of Book: Embattled Paradise: The American Family In An Age Of Uncertainty Book: Embattled Paradise: The American Family In An Age Of Uncertainty
Author: Arlene S. Skolnick
ISBN: 0465019242
ISBN-13: 9780465019243
, 978-0465019243
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Jan 1993
Publisher: Basic Books
Number of Pages: 304
Language: English