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Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America by Gary Laderman

Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America

Gary Laderman

296 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative reflective slow-paced
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Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable as death itself, an institution firmly embedded in our culture. But how did the funeral home come ...

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