Book Review. Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age. By James Chappel Basic Books: 368 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from ...

In the new book, “Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age,” James Chappel, an associate professor of history at Duke University and a senior fellow at the Duke Aging Center ...

It is, rather, a deadline extension, more years of not getting old. One sees this in films. In 1986, the year after “The Golden Girls” premièred, Martin Scorsese released “The Color of ...