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Title: Aging in America: The Years Ahead by Ed Kashi, Julie Winokur, Doris Roberts ISBN: 1-57687-193-2 Publisher: powerHouse Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Need to Know
Comment: "Cancel my appointments, I want to finish this," l called out the morning I first took Aging in America: The Years Ahead in my hands. I let the phone ring and the email and work at my desk go unattended as I turned page after page, reading, thinking, looking, and absorbing the entire book from beginning to end in one sitting.
I, a boomer, having been recently jostled by younger people in the workplace, enjoyed the words of Dr. Robert Butler, M.D in the book's preface "...discrimination against old people is profoundly ironic, because the very men and women who in their younger years discriminate against old people will, in all likelihood, eventually become old men and women."
I laughed. I cried. I marveled at the beautiful and the ugly and the ugly-beautiful and the beautiful- ugly images that belong to the incredible world of aging. I found the book thoughtful and evocative but not sentimental. Each page brought the unexpected; willingly I went on the whole trip from tuxedos to underpants. Via Aging in America I toured the world of inhalers and wheelchairs; I went to the senior Olympics and the senior participation at the Democratic convention that nominated Al Gore; I parked my imaginary RV with Loners of America; I played shuffle board; I got married at 85; I stood in the doorway of the dying and attended to the needs of many who were ill and frail; and I rode the bus to Atlantic City where, according to the factoid beneath a photo of an older fellow deeply contemplating a slot machine "...65% of the $37 million income made by casinos comes from people over 60." What?
I couldn't move from the casino page for a long time. This is what some people do with the final years of their life...? And the gaming industry gives back how much to senior needs and issues? As a new- age boomer-once- back- to- the- land-person- turned -I'll- help- you-in-the-city- nonprofit- Northern-California-liberal, I was really shocked.
But eventually I resumed turning the pages. "If only every work of nonfiction were graced by photos by Ed Kashi," I thought as I regained my mental composure, breathed deeply and studied each remaining photo for a long time.
Equal to the photographs are Julie Winokur's factoids, essays and interviews. I found her writing memorable and compelling, and I also appreciated her philosophical musings: "Life comes. Life goes. In between is this majestic arc of experience. We happen to be living at a time when the arc's final curve has been given a graceful extension. We're still trying to figure out what to do with it."
Aging in America: The Years Ahead is as good a look at things "senior" and "aging" as we might ever get. From cover to cover it presents a "majestic arc of the experience" of what aging is like for some working class and some middle class Americans. If you don't have a copy, do yourself a favor and get one, and if you have one already, just buy one for someone else. We happen to be living in a time when we need to know all about these things.
Rating: 5
Summary: Couldn't recommend it to more people!
Comment: This is a wonderful book covering a wide range of inspiring stories about aging Americans. Both a photographic jewel and written masterpiece, I couldn't recommend this book more to anyone and everyone who is interested. Truly a book to share with your family and friends!
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Title: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World: A Retrospective by Philippe Arbaizar, Jean Clair, Claude Cookman, Robert Delpire, Peter Galassi, Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Jean Leymarie, Serge Toubiana, Henri Cartier-Bresson ISBN: 0500542678 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Joseph Szabo: Teenage by Joseph Szabo, Cameron Crowe ISBN: 0972778802 Publisher: Grey Bull Pr Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Creative Age : Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life by Ph.D. M.D. Cohen Gene D. ISBN: 0380800713 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Body Parts by John Coplans ISBN: 1576871738 Publisher: powerHouse Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Los Alamos: Los Alamos by William Eggleston, Walter Hopes, Thomas Weski ISBN: 3908247691 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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