In Our Prime The Fascinating History and Promising Future of Middle Age

Name: In Our Prime The Fascinating History and Promising Future of Middle Age
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ISBN: 9781416572909

ISBN-10: 1416572902

ISBN-13: 9781416572909

Edition: 2012

Authors: Patricia Cohen

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Now in paperback fromNew York Timesreporter Patricia Cohen, a “lively, well-researched chronicle” (The New York Times Book Review) of the concept of middle age, from the nineteenth century to the present.For the first time ever, the middle-aged make up the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country—yet the history of middle age has remained largely untold. This important and immensely readable book finally fills the gap. In Our Primeis a “lucid, straightforward and conversational…a thorough—and thoroughly fascinating—cultural history of aging” (Chicago Tribune) from its invention in the late nineteenth century to its current place at the center of American society,…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 1/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.37" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English




The Invention of Middle Age



The Prime Meridian



Now and Then



The Tick of the Time Clock



The Renaissance of the Middle-Aged



The Middle-Aged Body



Middle Age Enters the Modern Age



Middle Age Is Rediscovered



The Sixties and Seventies: The Era of Middle Age



Middle Age Under the Microscope



The Middle-Aged Brain



The Midlife Industrial Complex



Consuming Desire



Middle Age Medicine



Middle Age Sex



Complex Accomplices



The Arrival of the Alpha Boomer



In Our Prime


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index