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Recommended Reading

  • W. Andrew Achenbaum, Older Americans, Vital Communities: A Bold Vision for Societal Aging, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
  • David Bornstein, How to Change the World, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question, New York: Ballantine Books, 2005.
  • Bob Buford, Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1997.
  • Robert Butler, Why Survive?: Growing Old in America, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
  • Civic Ventures, Metlife Foundation/Civic Ventures New Face of Work study, San Francisco: Civic Ventures, 2005.
  • Gene Cohen, The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life, New York: Harper, 2001.
  • Gene Cohen, The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain, New York: Basic Books, 2007.
  • Jim Collins, Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great, New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
  • Dave Corbett and Richard Higgins, Portfolio Life: The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion After 50, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.
  • Sara Davidson, Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?, New York: Random House, 2007.
  • Ken Dychtwald and Daniel Kadlec, The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life, Indianapolis: Wiley, 2006.
  • Ken Dychtwald, Tamara Erikson, and Robert Morison, Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills And Talent, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
  • Lee Eisenberg, The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life, New York: Free Press, 2006.
  • David Ekerdt, The Busy Ethic: Moral Continuity Between Work and Retirement, Gerontologist, v26 n3 p239-44 (June 1986).
  • Jonathan Englert, The Collar, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
  • Richard Fein, The Baby Boomer's Guide to the New Workplace, Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2006.
  • Robert Putnam, Lewis Feldstein and Donald Cohen, Better Together: Restoring the American Community, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
  • Robert William Fogel, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2002.
  • Ellen Freudenheim, Looking Forward: An Optimist's Guide to Retirement, New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2004.
  • David Galenson, Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
  • John Gardner, Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995.
  • Laura Gassner Otting, Change Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector, New York: Kaplan Publishing, 2007.
  • Steve Gillon, Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America, New York: Free Press, 2004.
  • William Graebner, A History of Retirement: The Meaning and Function of an American Institution, 1885-1978, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984.
  • Kelly Greene and Glenn Ruffenach, The Wall Street Journal Complete Retirement Guidebook: How to Plan It, Live It and Enjoy It, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
  • Charles Handy, The Age of Unreason, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
  • Arlie Hochschild, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work, New York: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 2001.
  • Herminia Ibarra, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004.
  • Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Back to College: Ending a career will soon mark the start of a new life, AARP Magazine (July & August 2006).
  • Peter Laslett, A Fresh Map of Life, Great Britain: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996.
  • Richard Leider and David Shapiro, Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004.
  • Suzanne Braun Levine, Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood, New York: Viking Adult, 2004.
  • Phyllis Moen and Patricia Roehling, The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004.
  • Nancy Morrow-Howell, James Hinterlong and Michael Sherraden, Productive Aging, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
  • Russell Muirhead, Just Work, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
  • Bill Novelli, 50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006.
  • Daniel Pink, Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself, New York: Warner Business Books, 2002.
  • Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
  • Theodore Roszak, America the Wise: The Longevity Revolution and the True Wealth of Nations, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
  • John Wallis Rowe and Robert Kahn, Successful Aging, New York: Dell, 1999.
  • Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners, Don't Retire, ReWire!, Royersford, PA: Alpha Publishing, 2002.
  • Leonard Steinhorn, The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007.
  • Howard and Marika Stone, Too Young to Retire: An Off-The Road Map to the Rest of Your Life, New York: Plume, 2004.
  • Studs Terkel, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, New York: New Press, 1997.
  • Abigail Trafford, My Time: Making the Most of the Bonus Decades After 50, New York: Basic Books, 2004.
  • John Bowe, Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.
  • Arthur I. Blaustein, MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Your Guide to Volunteering and Community Service, Heydey Books, 2002
  • Urie Bronfenbrenner, ed., Phyllis Moen, et al., The State of Americans, Free Press, 1996.
  • Robert N. Butler, Why Survive: Being Old in America, Harper & Row, 1975.
  • Jimmy Carter, The Virtues of Aging, Ballantine Books, 1998.
  • Robert Coles, with photographs by Alex Harris and Thomas Roma, Old and on Their Own, a Doubletake Book, Center for Documentary Studies in association with W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.
  • Dora L. Costa, The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990, University of Chicago Press, 1998.
  • Frances Fitzgerald, Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures, Simon and Schuster, 1986.
  • Betty Friedan, The Fountain of Age, Simon and Schuster, 1993.
  • John W. Gardner, No Easy Victories, Harper and Row, 1968.
  • John W. Gardner, Self-Renewal, Norton, 1964.
  • William Graebner, A History of Retirement in America: The Meaning and Function of an American Institution 1885-1978, Yale University Press, 1980.
  • Carole Haber and Brian Gratton, Old Age and the Search for Security: An American Social History, Indiana University Press, 1994.
  • Robert Louis Kahn and John Wallis Rowe, Successful Aging, Delacorte Press, 1999.
  • Mary Pipher, Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders, Riverhead Books, 1999.
  • Theodore Rozcak, America the Wise: The Longevity Revolution and the True Wealth of Nations, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998.
  • Theodore Rozcak, Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders, Berkeley Hills Books, 2001
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