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The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death / Jill Lepore.
Authors:
Lepore, Jill, 1966-
Material type:
Book
Subject:
United States -- Social life and customs.
United States -- Social conditions.
United States -- Intellectual life.
Politics and culture -- United States -- History.
Popular culture -- United States -- History.
Life -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Life (Biology) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Death -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Happiness -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Language:
English
Publisher:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2012.
Description:
xxxiii, 282 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780307592996
0307592995
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Contents:
Introduction: The Mansion of Happiness -- Hatched -- Baby Food -- 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.
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St. Charles
973 LEP
NONFICTION
Adult Collection
Batavia
973 LEP
NONFICTION
Adult Non-fiction
Franklin Park
973 LEP
NONFICTION
Adult Collection
Geneva
973 LEP
BOOK
Adult Non-fiction
Glen Ellyn
973 LEP
NONFICTION
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Villa Park
973 LEP
NONFICTION
Adult Non-fiction
West Chicago
973 LEP
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