Old Age Is Another Country:
A Traveler's Guide
by Page Smith
When we are young, we have no idea what the future will hold for us. Page Smith has provided us with a traveler's guide to the unknown country of old age. He understands the profound joy that comes only with sustained lives; he also sees the downside of old age: the fact that old people are invisible, with no real place in our society. He sees how old people are patronized in many ways.
Page Smith is a fierce advocate, as well as a witty and wise counselor, and hopes that his essays will show the young what lies ahead of them and stir them into changing society so that when they reach the threshold of old age, they will find the respect due our elders.
Noted American historian Page Smith has written more than twenty books, among them the eight-volume, 6000-page A People's History of the United States. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
In Praise of Page Smith
- "Smith brings to his work not only a clear and through knowledge of his subject, but a literary elegance rarely found amoung today's scholars." --- The Boston Sunday Globe
- "Smith's achievement is truly remarkable. To find standards with which to judge this work we must go back to the 19th-century masters...". --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
- "Smith writes as a lover loves--from the heart....." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
How to Get Your Copy of This Book
This book: Old Age is Another Country: A Traveler's Guide -- by Page Smith
5-1/2 x 7-3/4, 150 pp, $12.95 Paper, ISBN 0-89594-776-5
is available in most bookstores.
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