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    In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age
    In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age
    In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age
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    In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age

    Written by Patricia Cohen

    Narrated by Pam Ward

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    From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas
    comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the
    concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle-aged make up
    the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet
    the history of middle age has remained largely untold. This important
    and immensely readable book finally fills the gap.In Our Prime is
    a biography of the idea of middle age from its invention in the late
    nineteenth century to its current place at the center of American
    society, where it shapes the way we view our families, our professional
    obligations, and our inner lives. Patricia Cohen ranges over the entire
    landscape of midlife, exploring how its biological, psychological, and
    social definitions have shifted from one generation to the next. Middle
    age has been a symbol both of decline and of power and wealth.
    Explaining why, Cohen takes readers from early-twentieth-century
    factories that refused to hire middle-aged men to twenty-first-century
    high-tech laboratories where researchers are currently conducting
    cutting-edge experiments on the middle-aged brain and body.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 23, 2012
    ISBN9781452676203
    Author

    Patricia Cohen

    Patricia Cohen has been a New York Times reporter for thirteen years. She has also worked at The Washington Post, New York Newsday, and Rolling Stone. She has a BA from Cornell University and a graduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

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