Table of Contents

Transaction Introduction, Foreword, I The American Constitutional Arrangement, II The Family Wage Experiment, III The Suburban Strategy, IV The Religious Possibility, V The Cold War Family, VI The Professional Temptation, VII An Elusive Harmony, Index

About the Author

Allan Carlson is president of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society in Rockford, Illinois, and director of the Family in America Studies Center. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Kansas Crime Prevention Commission. He is the author of The New Agrarian Mind, The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics, and Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis, all available from Transaction.

Reviews

"This book is full of fascinating and little-known facts....I am sure this book will be eagerly read by those interested in the social history of the last two hundred years and its effects on the family...." - Thomas Storck, Caelum et Terra; "Allan Carlson, in this well researched and clearly laid out book, offers an analysis of American social history. His book is valuable to anyone interested in the erosion of our most basic social unit. The American family is, indeed, in trouble. Carlson tells us why." - George Neumayr, National Catholic Register; "Allan Carlson is a real treasure: an independent thinker, the genuine article. This is a brave and powerful book: a gimlet-eyed analysis with the force of a jeremiad." - William Kauffman, author, Every Man a King