What we really miss about the 1950's

Literally the author is evaluating how people view the nineteen fifties. When the man was the bread winner, the mom was the home maker, and the children attended high school with bright future's ahead. The author illustrates that while some of this is true, when compared with the surrounding era's, much of it was just an ideal spoon fed the the american people through TV, radio, and government pamphlets. While this era had a lot of appeal, given to be seemingly safer and a more opportune time, it was also unbalanced to the opposite of our current era. 

Analytically the author uses a large amount of research in the form of studies and statistics, to compare our era's, and reveal the contrast of the fifties to now, and to help illustrate perspective.

I feel that while the author demonstrates the appeal of the fifties, she is very clear to point out the flaws of the era. While the time may have pushed ideals as listed above, people were trying to live up to them, but the portrayal was more myth than reality. The people were also ignorant of crime rates dull to sexism, and racism. The ideal might be nice, but it's not realistic.