# The Promised Years

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- Book: [The Promised Years](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-freeberg/the-promised-years) ([The Promised Years.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-freeberg/the-promised-years.md))
- Authors: [Ernest Freeberg](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-freeberg)
- Publisher: Penguin Press
- ISBN: 979-82-1705-991-1
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2027-08-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

An acclaimed historian tells the story of how America invented the ideal of retirement we take for granted as a distinct phase of life: how did the years between work and true old age become a chance to...