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Life Begins at Forty

book by Pitkin

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    …the decade’s best-selling self-help books, Life Begins at Forty (1932) by Walter Pitkin, implied that a wise if chastened maturity was emotionally healthier and more realistic than adolescent self-confidence. At the same time, movies like Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934), You Can’t Take It with You (1938), and Meet…

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