Taking Retirement A Beginner's Diary Author:Carl H. Klaus "A veteran writer's ruminations about a key transition point in life that has gotten surprisingly little literary attention: retirement. . . . The quiet testimony of a man whose ongoing writing, editing, reading, gardening, traveling and ceaseless quest for self-knowledge make him much less retired than many people half his age." -Adam Hochschil... more »d, author of King Leopold's Ghost« less