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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Adults, Young Adults
Edition
Hardcover
Type
History
Features
NO DUST JACKET
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780307592996
Book Title
Mansion of Happiness : a History of Life and Death
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
9.5 in
Publication Year
2012
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
Jill Lepore
Genre
Self-Help, Psychology, Science, History, Social Science, Philosophy
Topic
Developmental / LifeSpan Development, Personal Growth / Happiness, Death & Dying, Sociology / General, General, Popular Culture, Customs & Traditions, Life Sciences / Biology, United States / General
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Width
6.6 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Renowned Harvard scholar and "New Yorker "staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? All anyone can do is ask, Lepore writes. That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity. Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. Each of these debates has a history. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life from board games to breast pumps Lepore argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the Space Age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy. New worlds were found, she writes, and old paradises were lost. As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past, " The Mansion of Happiness "is delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling."

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307592995
ISBN-13
9780307592996
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113064521

Product Key Features

Book Title
Mansion of Happiness : a History of Life and Death
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Developmental / LifeSpan Development, Personal Growth / Happiness, Death & Dying, Sociology / General, General, Popular Culture, Customs & Traditions, Life Sciences / Biology, United States / General
Genre
Self-Help, Psychology, Science, History, Social Science, Philosophy
Author
Jill Lepore
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in

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Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Equip a profound scholar with H. L. Mencken's instinct for running down charlatans and chuckleheads, and you get this book. It will amuse and embarrass those of us ever befuddled by the rogues in her gallery." Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg    "Written with sardonic wit and penetrating intelligence,  The Mansion of Happiness  is a fascinating and startlingly original guide to the ways in which the human life-cycle has been imagined, manipulated, managed, marketed, and debased in modern times. Lepore weaves her way brilliantly along the mazy track that leads from the egg in which life's game begins to the giant freezers in which certain crack-brained visionaries hope to defeat death itself. A fast-paced, hilarious, angry, poignant, and richly illuminating book." Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How The World Became Modern "You will find yourself laughing on one page and arguing with the author on the next as Jill Lepore's unpompous provocative history of humanity's changing ideas about life and death unfolds. The author demonstrates, with wit and erudition, that nothing is more mutable and time-bound than our most cherished notions about the supposedly eternal verities of aging from birth to decomposition-especially in a land founded on the proposition that the pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right at any stage of life." Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, "A sharp, illuminating history of ideas…Brilliantly written and engaging throughout…superb." Kirkus, starred review "Equip a profound scholar with H. L. Mencken's instinct for running down charlatans and chuckleheads, and you get this book. It will amuse and embarrass those of us ever befuddled by the rogues in her gallery." Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg "Written with sardonic wit and penetrating intelligence, The Mansion of Happiness is a fascinating and startlingly original guide to the ways in which the human life-cycle has been imagined, manipulated, managed, marketed, and debased in modern times. Lepore weaves her way brilliantly along the mazy track that leads from the egg in which life's game begins to the giant freezers in which certain crack-brained visionaries hope to defeat death itself. A fast-paced, hilarious, angry, poignant, and richly illuminating book." Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How The World Became Modern "This is why Jill Lepore is becoming my favorite historian: wise, witty, wide in scope and deep in spirit." James Gleick, author of The Information "A series of engaging and wonderfully perceptive essays on how individuals caught in time made sense of life and death. Jill Lepore is one of America's most accomplished and imaginative historians." Linda Colley, author of The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh "With wit and erudition, Lepore demonstrates that nothing is more mutable and time-bound than our most cherished notions about the supposedly eternal verities of life and death."Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason "With her characteristically sharp-edged humor and luminous storytelling, Lepore regales us with stories that follow the stages of life…her inspired commentary on our shared social history offers a fresh approach to our changing views of life and death." Publishers Weekly
Lccn
2011-050566
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
973
Lc Classification Number
E169.1.L5295 2012
Copyright Date
2012

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