Two new books explain how rising inequality shattered the working-class family of the mid-20th century.
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The Real Story of the American Family
Author: Stephanie Coontz
Stephanie Coontz, the director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families, teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She is the
author of Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage and
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap.