The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307958501 (0307958507)
Publish date: June 5th 2012
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Book Club,
Adult,
Culture,
Politics,
Sociology,
Psychology,
United States
A book that covers a wide range of topics, all rendered fascinating by Lepore's sharp, engaging and witty style.
The best way to describe what this book is about is that it is a history of hokum, quackery, crackpots charlatans and chuckleheads as framed by the stages of life and death as refracted through a board game created in 1860 called the Checkered Game of Life. We know this game more by it's 100th anniv...
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