The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death / Jill Lepore.
2012
E169.1 .L5295 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death / Jill Lepore.
Author
Lepore, Jill, 1966-
Uniform Title
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307592996
0307592995
0307592995
Imprint
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xxxiii, 282 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
E169.1 .L5295 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
973
Summary
"A history of American ideas about life and death includes coverage of topics ranging from the 17th-century Englishman who investigated a belief about life starting with eggs and the heated debates over Darwin's evolutionary findings to the role of the Space Age in changing views on planetary life to the 1970s trends in cryogenics." --Publishers description
A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
Note
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The mansion of happiness
Hatched
Baby good
The children's room
All about erections
Mr. Marriage
Happiness minutes
Confessions of an amateur mother
Happy old age
The gate of heaven
Resurrection
Last words
A chronology.
Hatched
Baby good
The children's room
All about erections
Mr. Marriage
Happiness minutes
Confessions of an amateur mother
Happy old age
The gate of heaven
Resurrection
Last words
A chronology.