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Being Old in America was one of the earliest books to bring to public attention the plight of elderly persons in the United States

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Melville's Other Lives Nancy Tatom Ammerman Being Old in America wasMelville's Other Lives is the first book length study on The Piazza Tales Herman Melville's only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetime and the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melville's stories. As Christopher Sten shows, all of the stories in The Piazza Tales present encounters between established white male figures: a writer, a lawyer, a ship captain, a