The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore

The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death

Jill Lepore

320 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction essays history science informative reflective medium-paced
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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...

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