Growing Old in America: Lectures - Hardcover

Fischer, David Hackett

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9780195021592: Growing Old in America: Lectures

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ISBN 10: 0195021592 ISBN 13: 9780195021592

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1977

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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.

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"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
"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
"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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