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Barcode30053003858217
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No305.26 CHAP
Title Golden years : how Americans invented and reinvented old age / James Chappel.
Author Chappel, James, 1983- author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 300-399
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003858217305.26 CHAP3/11/2025 Available

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Personal Name Chappel, James, 1983- author.
Title Statement Golden years : how Americans invented and reinvented old age / James Chappel.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Basic Books, 2024.
Physical Description 357 pages ; 25 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-344) and index.
Summary, Etc. "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. In Golden Years, 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 The Golden Girls. 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. As the population of older Americans grows, Golden Years urges us to look to the past to better understand old age today--and how it could be better tomorrow"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Old age United States.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Aging Social aspects United States.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Retirement United States.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Older people Social conditions. United States

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