5/20/2023 0 Comments Jill lepore this america![]() ![]() In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. ![]() “That’s why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg, and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. A finalist for the 2013 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction ![]()
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