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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"How did we, as a society, get to this point? It's a question that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Powers set out to answer in this gripping, richly researched social and personal history of mental illness. Powers traces the appalling narrative--from the sadistic abuse of 'lunaticks' at Bedlam Asylum in London seven centuries ago to today's scattershot treatments and policies. His odyssey of reportage began after not one...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
316 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores how Mark Twain's novels about boyhood, which were set in Hannibal, Missouri, have affected the town's image and discusses how recent violent events in Hannibal may have been a result of its hometown image.
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