Life Begins at Forty: Walter B Pitkin: Amazon.com: Books

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Hardcover: 175 pages
Publisher: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill (1932)
Language: English
ASIN: B00085JNB4
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #545,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Says some thing that are true, but is surer about things than he should be

By Schmerguls VINE VOICE on January 28, 2014

Format: Hardcover

This is a book published in 1934. The author was born 6 Feb 1878 in Ypsilanti, Michigan and died 25 Jan 1953 in Palo Alto, Cal. He makes many sweeping statements with the air of one who sees the future unerringly. Some of what he says makes sense, e.g., that people after forty may be better equipped for making decisions, etc., but a lot of his predictions are way off: e.g., that the population of the U.S. would peak at about 175,000,000 in 1975 and thereafter decline. He considers the high schools and colleges of 1932 as doing a very poor job at educating , and accurately says many kids going to college are wasting their time--which is certainly even more true today, when college is often just another four years for kids to have fun and live off their parents.

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Life Begins at Forty Hardcover – January 1, 1932

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