Title The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death / Jill Lepore.

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	xxxiii, 282 pages ; 25 cm
Note	"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
	"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-265) and index.
Summary	"A history of American ideas about life and death includes coverage of topics ranging from the 17th-century Englishman who investigated a belief about life starting with eggs and the heated debates over Darwin's evolutionary findings to the role of the Space Age in changing views on planetary life to the 1970s trends in cryogenics." --Publishers description
	A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
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.
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.
Added Title	New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
ISBN	9780307592996
	0307592995

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