Aging in America: A Cultural History
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Aging is a preoccupation shared by beauty bloggers, serious journalists, scientists, doctors, celebrities--arguably all of adult America, given the pervasiveness of the crusade against it in popular culture and the media. We take our youth-oriented culture as a given but, as Lawrence R. Samuel argues, this was not always the case. Old age was revered in early America, in part because it was so rare. Indeed, it was not until the 1960s, according...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:081224883X
ISBN13:9780812248838
Release Date:March 2017
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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