Product Description: Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term “ageism” and made “Alzheimer’s” a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years, and the growing number of people over age sixty-five...read more

The author The Making of a Counter Culture returns with a new assessment of the Baby Boom generation, exploring issues of economics, politics, medicine, ethics, biotechnology, and class. (view table of contents)

The best-selling author of The Making of a Counter Culture provides a provocative look at America's feelings toward their senior citizens and the way they are perceived by the media, the family, and society as a whole. (view table of contents)