Why Survive?

Why Survive? Being Old In America was written by Robert N. Butler and published by Harper & Row in 1975,^[1] it won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.^[2] The book discusses a range of problems faced by older people in American society stemming from poverty, the failures of the Social Security system, and social isolation, and argues for the necessity of comprehensive reform and developing of a strategy for dealing with an aging population.

Why Survive? Being Old In America

First edition
Author	Robert N. Butler
Publisher	Harper & Row
Publication date	1975
Pages	512
ISBN	978-0-8018-7425-3