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every day with their dedication and talent. Particular thanks to Jon Landman, Chip McGrath, Scott Heller, Bill Carter, the brilliant lunch table, and the colleagues whose work is frequently cited in these pages. I am forever indebted to Jeff Roth. If it weren’t for him, there would be no pictures in this book. Mary Hardiman has frequently lent me her creative gifts. Thanks to Fred Conrad. I am very grateful to friends who offered to read drafts and engage in lengthy discussions, including Jennifer Gordon, Phoebe Hoban, Christina Malle, Michael Massing, Celia McGee, Esther Perel, Tina Rosenberg, David Serlin, Dinitia Smith, and Chuck Sabel, who also doubled as a dedicated researcher.
    I am indebted to the people who took time from their own work to help me do mine, particularly Bert Brim, Margie Lachman, Richard Davidson, Nikki Rute, Susan Jensen, Abbe Raven, David Poltrack, and Richie Jackson. I received research help early on from the smart and enthusiastic Natasha Degen.
    I have benefited from the intelligence and hard work of many other scholarsand authors who have written about aging, culture, and related subjects, including Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Howard Chudacoff, Thomas Cole, W. Andrew Achenbaum, Robert Kanigel, David and Sheila Rothman, Sander Gilman, Roland Marchand, Warren Susman, Glen Elder, and Anne Hollander.
    Nan Graham was a demanding and wise editor, and this is a better book because of her. I am grateful to many people at Scribner who worked on my manuscript, including Daniel Burgess, Paul Whitlatch, Katie Hanson, Katie Monaghan, Katie Rizzo, Susan Moldow, Rex Bonomelli, Roz Lippel, and Kara Watson. Mindy Werner helped me work through difficult organizational problems. Andrew Wylie and his wonderful staff thankfully picked up where Scott left off.
    The MacDowell Colony was a heaven-sent haven where I got an enormous amount of work done in a very short time. I also love the New York Public Library.
    I am fortunate to have a surrogate family, a dear circle of close friends who were understanding when I dropped out of sight for months, and who offer love and support whether or not I am writing a book. I also want to thank my son, Alex, for putting up with my long evenings and weekends at the computer and my absence from so many of his soccer games.
    Most of all, I owe an immeasurable debt to my mother and my late father, who always showered me with love and believed I could do anything.

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    Angel, Jacqueline L. Handbook of the Sociology of Aging. New York: Springer, 2011.
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