Our Aging Society
Subtitle: Paradox and Promise
Contributors: Alan J. Pifer (Editor); Lydia Bronte (Editor)
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: April 1986
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780393022995
First sentence: WRITERS OFTEN USE THE MYTHS and images of youth and age' that are commonplace in descriptions of human development to describe historical circumstances; for more than two centuries, this language of aging has been invoked to interpret American history.