Aging in America: A Cultural History

by Lawrence R. Samuel

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"