Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties

Title: Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties Author: Kunin, Madeleine May ISBN: 9780999499597 Publisher: Green Writers Press Published: 2018 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher Description: Many readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. In her newest book, a memoir entitled Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties, the topic is aging, but she looks well beyond the physical tolls and explores the emotional ones as well. And she has had an extraordinary life: governor, ambassador, feminist, wife, mother, professor, poet, and much, much more. As recently reported in the New York Times, a girl born today can expect to live to the age of ninety, on average (boys, on the other hand, can expect to live until age eighty-five). Life expectancy, for many, is increas