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Community Read to Consider ‘Golden Years’
Don’t miss hearing Duke University history professor James Chappel discuss his book Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age.
Join your neighbors Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. in the clubhouse for our annual Community Read, sponsored by the Book Club.
All are welcome to discuss the book and Chappel’s research. We’ll talk about how Americans once had little choice but to work until death. But as the United States prospered, a new idea took hold: retirement.
How has that time of life transformed? And how has the model of a secure old age crumbled into contradictions — ever-longer lifespans and spiraling healthcare costs, 401(k)s and economic precarity, unprecedented opportunity and often disastrous instability?
As the population of older Americans grows, Golden Years looks to the past to better understand old age today — and how it could be better tomorrow.
In addition to buying the book directly from the publisher (above), here are other options for purchasing it:
If you have questions, contact Julie Borths (jkborths@gmail.com) after Feb. 7.