Download or read book The American Resting Place written by Marilyn Yalom and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the four-hundred-year history of America through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, in an illustrated study that follows the historic pattern of American immigration to reveal changing ideas about death, personal identity, gender, class, economic status, ethnic burial rites, and more.