A Mad World and Its Inhabitants - Couverture souple

Chambers, Julius

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1646798902 ISBN 13 : 9781646798902

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 1905

Synopsis

"The book is deeply interesting and has occasioned much comment in influential circles. It must certainly have required a strong nerve to undertake this escapade." -British Mail, 1876 Fifteen years before Nellie Bly's famous investigation, Ten Days in a Mad-House (also available from Cosimo Classics), muckraking journalist Julius Chambers led the way in exposing abuse in the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum in A Mad World and Its Inhabitants (1876). Thanks to his reports on the ten days he lived among the inmates, a dozen sane patients were freed, an asylum reorganization was forced, and there was a change in the laws that governed the management. This book is considered a landmark in the field of investigative journalism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

JULIUS CHAMBERS (1850-1920) was a muckraking journalist, assigned by the Tribune to impersonate a madman in an insane asylum. Chambers also wrote for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and taught at Cornell and NYU.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 1905
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1646798902
• ISBN 13: 9781646798902
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible