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100 1 _aLepore, Jill,
_d1966-
245 1 4 _aThe mansion of happiness :
_ba history of life and death /
_cJill Lepore.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bAlfred A. Knopf,
_c2012.
300 _axxxiii, 282 p. ;
_c25 cm.
500 _a"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
500 _a"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"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
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
520 _aA history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xSocial life and customs.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xSocial conditions.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xIntellectual life.
650 0 _aPolitics and culture
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPopular culture
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aLife
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aLife (Biology)
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aLife cycle, Human
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aDeath
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aHappiness
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
730 0 _aNew Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
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