A Mad World and Its Inhabitants - Softcover

Chambers, Julius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1646798902 ISBN 13: 9781646798902

Publisher: 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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Publication date: 1905
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1646798902
• ISBN 13: 9781646798902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232