Daniel Horowitz is Mary Huggins Gamble Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Smith College. He is the author of 10 books, most recently, Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America and American Dreams, American Nightmares: Culture and Crisis in Residential Real Estate from the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
""With a knack for wonderful story telling and fascinating detail and the perspective of an esteemed cultural historian and ever-engaged and curious retired person, Daniel Horowitz offers the general reader a comprehensive look at the experience, dilemmas, and uniqueness of aging in modern America."" - Gary Cross, author of Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal ""America has been getting older by the minute – and has been for decades. We've done so the way we do everything: loudly, chaotically, and democratically. In On Retirement, Daniel Horowitz listens in on that conversation, brilliantly distilling retirement manuals and magazines and TikToks into an elegant narrative about an aging America."" - James Chappel, Duke University, Author of Golden Years (2024)