The mansion of happiness
Subtitle: a history of life and death
By: Jill Lepore
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780307592996
Subjects: Politics and culture; Social life and customs; Life; Death; Intellectual life; Popular culture; Human Life cycle; Social conditions; Life (Biology); Happiness; History
Other titles: New Yorker.
Description: A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Mansion of Happiness; title: Hatched; title: Baby Food; title: The Children's Room; title: All about Erections; title: Mr. Marriage; title: Happiness Minutes; title: Confessions of an Amateur Mother; title: Happy Old Age; title: The Gate of Heaven; title: Resurrection; title: Last Words; title: A Chronology.