{"product_id":"golden-years-how-americans-invented-and-reinvented-old-age-hardcover","title":"Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Chappel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"learned and lively\" (Nancy MacLean, author of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in Chains\u003c\/i\u003e) account of the history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On farms and in factories, Americans once had little choice but to work until death. As the nation prospered, a new idea was born: the right to a dignified and secure old age. That project has benefited millions, but it remains incomplete--and today it's under siege. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eGolden Years\u003c\/i\u003e, historian James Chappel shows how old age first emerged as a distinct stage of life and how it evolved over the last century, shaped by politicians' choices, activists' demands, medical advancements, and cultural models from utopian novels to \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Girls\u003c\/i\u003e. Only after World War II did government subsidies and employer pensions allow people to retire en masse. Just one generation later, this model crumbled. Older people streamed back into the workforce, and free-market policymakers pushed the burdens of aging back onto older Americans and their families. We now confront an old age mired in contradictions: ever longer lifespans and spiraling health-care costs, 401(k)s and economic precarity, unprecedented opportunity and often disastrous instability. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the population of older Americans grows, \u003ci\u003eGolden Years\u003c\/i\u003e urges us to look to the past to better understand old age today--and how it could be better tomorrow.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Chappel\u003c\/b\u003e is the Gilhuly Family Associate Professor of History at Duke University and a senior fellow at the Duke Aging Center. The author of \u003ci\u003eCatholic Modern\u003c\/i\u003e, his writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 19, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978262577453,"sku":"9781541619524","price":30.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/EZxQxRhyGh9781541619524.webp?v=1775801328","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/golden-years-how-americans-invented-and-reinvented-old-age-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}