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Growing Old in America: The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University

David Hackett Fischer

A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other programs.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publish Date: Apr 20th, 1978
  • Pages: 304
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Enlarged - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.56in - 0.74in - 0.87lb
  • EAN: 9780195023664
  • Categories: Social HistoryLife Stages - Later YearsUnited States - 20th Century

Praise for this book

"The only major interpretive study of a very important and, needless to say, timely subject...deserves a wide audience, not only among historians, but among members of the helping professions and all others concerned with the welfare of our senior citizens."--Journal of American History