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De Beauvoir travelled intrepidly from new York to Washington, San Francisco to Las Vegas, Chicago (where she met Nelson Algren) to New Orleans and the deep south. Her account is packed with beautiful descriptions and penetrating observations about postwar American culture, food, landscape - some of historical interest, some which ring just as true today. De Beauvoir loved exploring the seamier side of cities - visiting drug dens in Chicago, smoking poet a bohemian parties in New York. She was shocked be the vast gulf between rich and proof everywhere in the country, and by segregation in the deep south. America Day by Day is classic travel writing - vivid, personal, inquisitive.

What do the words elderly, old, and aged really mean? How are they used by society, and how in turn do they define the generation that we are taught to respect and love but instead castigate and avoid? Most importantly, how is our treatment of this generation a reflection of our society's values and priorities?

In The Coming of Age, Simone de Beauvoir seeks greater understanding of our perception of elders. With bravery, tenacity, and forceful honesty, she guides us on a study spanning a thousand years and a variety of different nations and cultures to provide a clear and alarming picture of "Society's secret shame"—the separation and distance from our communities that the old must suffer and endure.