Homeward Bound weaves together two antiquated suburban 1950s narratives with rampant anti-communism; allowing it to be a persuasive historical argument. Attempting to establish why, unlike both their children and their parents, postwar American citizens looked upon marriage alongside parenthood with great excitement and promise. May finds that Cold War philosophy and domestic restoration were two sides of the same coin. Post-war American citizens felt the need to free themselves from the misadventures of the past in order to be more secure in later years. According to the author, national containment was the product of uncertainties and objectives set after the war. Within the family, the potentially threatening social entities of the new age could be tamed, and could increase the security and life fulfillment that men and women wanted to achieve. However, the satisfactory emphasis of the great minds and physiologists of the 1950s suggested personal and private solutions to social problems. The modern family was where such alteration was expected to occur. Family was the atmosphere where families could feel comfortable with themselves. That said, domestic moderation and its calming corollary have weakened the potential for political engagement and protected the alarming effects of anti-communism and the Cold War consensus. Elaine Tyler May begins by uncovering the origins of this internal restraint in the 1930s and 1940s. During the Depression he discusses multiple views on the family being challenged, for example "one with both heads of the family sharing tasks and the other with spouses whose sides were significantly differentiated." Regardless of the plentiful supply of single women idealized in 1930s popular culture, families in the midst of depression, and years of war, domestic control was a reasonable response to specific historical problems. conditions. It has allowed people to pursue, in the midst of a tense and dangerous world situation, the pursuit of a consumption-oriented and sexually satisfied personal life, free from difficult moments. But those circumstances were different from those of their children, who broke the unanimity regarding internal containment and the Cold War. Presumably baby boomers will ultimately be more successful than their parents in achieving more fulfilling and more tolerant lives in the world to come. Gender, family and politics will forever be implicated in the continuing saga of post-war transformation. Elaine Taylor May successfully allowed her readers to grasp the seriousness and depth of women and their experiences during and around the Depression, the Cold War, and World War II..