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Author Lepore, Jill, 1966-

Title The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death / Jill Lepore.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E169.1 .L5295 2012    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxxiii, 282 pages ; 25 cm
Note "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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.
Summary A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
Subject United States -- Social life and customs.
United States.
Manners and customs.
United States -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
United States -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Politics and culture -- United States -- History.
Politics and culture.
History.
Popular culture -- United States -- History.
Popular culture.
Life -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Life.
Social aspects.
Life (Biology) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Life (Biology)
Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects.
Death -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Death -- Social aspects.
Happiness -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Happiness -- Social aspects.
Happiness.
Added Title New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
ISBN 9780307592996
0307592995

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