"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--Title page verso.
Electronic book.
Summary
"A history of American ideas about life and death includes coverage of topics ranging from the 17th-century Englishman who investigated a belief about life starting with eggs and the heated debates over Darwin's evolutionary findings to the role of the Space Age in changing views on planetary life to the 1970s trends in cryogenics." --Publishers description
Contents
Introduction: The mansion of happiness -- Hatched -- Baby good -- The children's room -- All about erections -- Mr. Marriage -- Happiness minutes -- Confessions of an amateur mother -- Happy old age -- The gate of heaven -- Resurrection -- Last words -- A chronology.
Summary
A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. New York Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012 Available via World Wide Web.