TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lepore,Jill
TI  - The mansion of happiness: a history of life and death 
SN  - 9780307592996
AV  - E169.1 .L5295 2012
U1  - 973 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Politics and culture
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Life
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Life (Biology)
KW  - Life cycle, Human
KW  - Death
KW  - Happiness
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso; "Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The mansion of happiness -- Hatched -- Baby good -- 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
N2  - "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
ER  -