Lastingness: The Art of Old Age

by Nicholas Delbanco

Book Overview

America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're "over" it by fifty and should that hill involve entertainment or athletics we're finished long before. But if younger is better, it doesn't appear that youngest is best: we want our teachers, doctors, generals, and presidents to have reached a certain age. In context after context and contest after contest, we're more than a little conflicted about elders of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446199648
• ISBN13: 9780446199643
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"