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

by David Hackett Fischer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199726851
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/20/1978
Series:	Galaxy Books
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Hometown:

Wayland, Massachusetts

Date of Birth:

December 2, 1935

Place of Birth:

Baltimore, Maryland

Education:

A.B., Princeton University, 1958; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1962

Editorial Reviews

"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

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