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Golden Years

How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
  • James Chappel
2024
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Featured Excerpts

  • An older man standing outside a restaurant.
    Book Review

    Aging Out

    Many of us do not go gentle into that good night.
    by Anne Matthews via The American Scholar on December 5, 2024
  • Collage of The Golden Girls, a suitcase, a golf ball, viagra pills, and a Welcome to Florida sign.
    Book Review

    How Old Age Was Reborn

    “The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth go too far?
    by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on November 25, 2024
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