The Lost City children of time

The Lost City children of timeMillions of Americans yearn for a lost sense of community, for the days when neighbors looked out for one another and families were stable and secure. The 1950s are regarded as the golden age of community, but 1960s rebellion and 1980s nostalgia have blurred our view of what life was really like back then. In The Lost City, Alan Ehrenhalt cuts through the fog, immersing us in the sights, sounds, and rhythms of life in America forty years ago. He takes

learn about the invention of matches and the chemistry of cooking

-and quizzes to recap it all

its first manned orbit of Earth

Fire someone or deny someone an expected promotion

Throughout his childhood

simply known as "The Play

Social problem films of the 1950s and '60s brought fresh looks at the community

No one has looked so deeply into the very earliest stages of human development

Once forced together

historian Julie M

something I was too afraid to acknowledge

Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie