An "affectionate, touchingly empathetic" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) look at old age in America today Welcome to Canterbury Tower , an apartment building in Florida, where the residents are busy with friendships, love, sex, money, and gossip-and the average age is eightysix. Journalist Dudley Clendinen's mother moved to Canterbury in 1994, planning-like most the inhabitants-to spend her final years there. But life was not over yet for the feisty southern matron. There, she and her eccentric new friends lived out a soap opera of dignity, nerve, and humor otherwise known as the New Old Age. A Place Called Canterbury is both a journalist's account of the last years of the Greatest Generation and a son's rueful memoir of his mother. Entertaining and unsparing, it is essential reading for anyone with aging parents, and those wondering what their own old age might look like.

A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America

Clendinen, Dudley

Parenting & Relationships

Penguin??Books

Documents the retirement of a former New York Times writer to a full-service Tampa Bay apartment populated by neighbors from all economic backgrounds and faiths, in an account that traces the community's shared efforts to secure vibrancy and dignity throughout their final years.

Viking Adult

A chronicle of the Gay Rights crusade traces the movement's development into a force to change American society, drawing from hundreds of interviews and analyzing the factions within the movement, as well as their different agendas and internecine struggles. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America

History

Americas

Simon&Schuster

With a New Preface Written in 2016 by Adam Nagourney This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, at the Stonewall riots in New York, through 1988, when the gay rights movement was eclipsed by the more urgent demands of AIDS activists, this is the remarkable and until now untold story of how a largely invisible population of men and women banded together to create their place in America’s culture and government. Told through the voices of gay activists and their opponents, filled with dozens of colorful characters, Out for Good traces the emergence of gay rights movements in cities across the country and their transformation into a national force that changed the face of America forever. Out for Good is the unforgettable chronicle of an important—and nearly lost—chapter in American history.

Out For Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America

Nagourney, Adam

Africa

The Prevailing South: Life and Politics in a Changing Culture

A collection of essays on the unique characteristics of the South and its politics.

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Longstreet Press

Travel

Taylor Trade Publishing

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