The Unlikely Celebrity: Bill Sackter's Triumph over Disability
Walz PhD, Professor Thomas H; Morrow, Barry [Foreword]
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The story of Bill Sackter, a man who spent nearly 50 years in a mental institution and emerged to blossom into an unlikely celebrity. Walz provides an account of Sackter's life, exploring how he was committed at the age of seven, later becoming Handicapped Person of the Year when in his 70s.
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Thomas Walz is a professor of social work at the University of Iowa. His scholarly books are The Upsidedown Welfare State, Working in We/fire, Beyond Management: Humanizing the Administrative Process, and Sexual Health in Later Life (coauthored with Nancee Blurn). The founder and director of the annual National Creative Writing Seminar for Social Workers at the University of Iowa, he is a poet and the author of the novel Disaster Center.
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