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A Mad World and Its Inhabitants - Softcover

Chambers, Julius

 
9781646798902: A Mad World and Its Inhabitants
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.

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