Being Mortal

(Martin Jones) #1

53 inLosAngeles,GeorgeWeller:J.Spano,“Jury
Told Weller Must Pay for Killing 10,” Los Angeles
Times,Oct.6,2006,http://articles.latimes.com/2006/oct/
06/local/me-weller6.


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61 In1913,MabelNassau:M.L.Nassau,OldAge
Poverty in Greenwich Village: A Neighborhood Study
(Fleming H. Revell Co., 1915).


62 Unless family could take such people in: M.
Katz, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse (Basic Books,
1986); M.HolsteinandT. R.Cole,“TheEvolution of
Long-Term Care in America,” in The Future of
Long-TermCare,ed.R.H.Binstock,L.E.Cluff,andO.
Von Mering (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).


62 A 1912 report: Illinois State Charities
Commission, Second Annual Report of the State
CharitiesCommission,1912,pp.457–508;VirginiaState
BoardofCharitiesandCorrections,FirstAnnualReport
of State Board of Charities and Corrections,1909.


63 Nothing provoked greater terror: Haber and
Gratton,Old Age and the Search for Security.


66 the case of Harry Truman: M. Barber,
“Crotchety Harry Truman Remains an Icon of the
Eruption,”SeattlePost-intelligencer,March11,2000;S.
Rosen, Truman of Mt. St. Helens: The Man and His
Mountain(MadronaPublishers,1981).Twobandshave
putoutsongs inspiredbyTruman:R.W.Stone’s 1980
countryrockhit,“HarryTruman,YourSpiritStillLives
On,” http://www.youtube.com/

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