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020			_a9781101903766
050	0	0	_aPS3611.I655 _bA6 2016
082	1		_a814.54 KIN _2
100	1		_aKinsley, Michael E.
245	1	0	_aOld age : _ba beginner's guide _c/ Michael Kinsley ; foreword by Michael Lewis
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Tim Duggan Book _c, 2016
300			_a160 p. _c; 19 cm
505	0		_aInroduction 1. An Encounter in the Pool 2. In Defense of Denial 3. It's Not Rocket Science, But It Is Brain Surgery 4. An Encounter over Denver 5. Have You Lost Your Mind? 6. The Vanity of Human Hopes [Reputation] 7. The Least We Can Do 8. An Encounter in the Stockroom.
520			_aVanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The largest age cohort in history - the notorious baby boomers - is approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you've gone the reputation you leave behind? In this series of essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own battle with Parkinson's disease to unearth answers to questions we are all at some time forced to confront. "Sometimes," he writes, "I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties." This book is at once a fresh assessment of a generation and a frequently funny account of one man's journey toward the finish line. "The least misfortune can do to make up for itself is to be interesting," he writes. "Parkinson's disease has fulfilled that obligation."
600	1	4	_aKinsley, Michael E.
650		4	_aAging _z-United States
650		4	_aLife change events _x-Psychological aspects.
650		4	_aBaby Boom generation _z-United States
650		4	_aLife
650		4	_aValues
650		4	_aMeaning _x-Psychology
650		4	_aAuthors, American _v--Biography
650		4	_aParkinson's disease _x-Patients _z-United States _v--Biography.
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