When people talk about the "good old days," it might be instructive to ask when those were, exactly.
Because while we fondly remember eras like the 1950s and their relative prosperity, we look past things like the fear of nuclear war and legal racism. Or as Stephanie Coontz puts it, "Leave it to Beaver" was not a documentary.
Coontz drilled into the reality of times we hold in fond but fuzzy focus in her 1992 book The Way We Never Were.
The book has been updated and re-released with two more decades of experience on board. The author joins us for a trip down memory lane, or reality row, or whatever we should call it.
