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Exploring American life-death ideas through history.
If you're intrigued by how generations before us grappled with the mysteries of life and death, Jill Lepore's 'The Mansion of Happiness' is a book that could deeply enrich your understanding. It's a masterfully woven narrative that doesn't just recount history but invites you to ponder the evolution of existential concepts that are as relevant today as they were centuries ago. It's both an intellectual journey and a delightful read that offers fresh perspectives on the age-old questions that continue to define the human condition.
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The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
by
Jill Lepore
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$14.90
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ISBN: 9780307476456
Authors:
Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2013-03-26
Format: Paperback
Related Topics:
American History,
Sociology,
History,
American History,
Politics,
Essays,
Politics,
History,
History
Goodreads rating: 3.53
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Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. Each of these debates has a history. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life—from board games to breast pumps—Lepore argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the Space Age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy. “New worlds were found,” she writes, and “old paradises were lost.” As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past, The Mansion of Happiness is delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling.
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