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Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.
“One of the 100 best books to read at any age.”
—WASHINGTON POST
"10 Books to Help You Foster a More Diverse and Inclusive Workplace." ―FORBES
“Wow. This book totally rocks…. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.”
―ANNE LAMOTT, New York Times bestselling author
"Vibrant, energetic, fact-filled and funny, This Chair Rocks is a call to arms not just for older people but for our whole society."
―KATHA POLLITT, poet, essayist, and Nation columnist
"Sometimes a writer does us all a great favor and switches on a light. Snap! The darkness vanishes, and in its place we find an electric vision of new ways of living...This Chair Rocks illuminates the path." ―DR. BILL THOMAS, Founder of ChangingAging
"This Chair Rocks is radical, exuberant, and full of all sorts of facts that erase many of the myths and beliefs about late life. As Applewhite defines and describes ageism, new ways of seeing and being in the world emerge, empowering everyone to see things as they really are." ―LAURIE ANDERSON, Artist
“This is one of the most important books you’ll ever read.”
—MARC FREEDMAN, author of How to Live Forever
Author and activist ASHTON APPLEWHITE has been recognized by the New York Times, The New Yorker, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. She blogs at This Chair Rocks, speaks widely around the world, has written for Harper’s and Playboy, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? In 2016, she joined the PBS site Next Avenue’s annual list of 50 Influencers in Aging as their Influencer of the Year. At the beginning of her career, she was an Editorial Assistant at St. Martin’s Press.