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Beast

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

AvBenjamin B. Lindsey,Harvey J. O'Higgins,Benjamin B Lindsey

409 kr

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Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey’s exposé of big business’s influence on Colorado and Denver politics, a best seller when it was originally published in 1911, is now back in print. The Beast reveals the plight of working-class Denver citizens—in particular those Denver youths who ended up in Lindsey’s court day after day. These encounters led him to create the juvenile court, one of the first courts in the country set up to deal specifically with young delinquents. In addition, Lindsey exposes the darker side of many well-known figures in Colorado history, including Mayor Robert W. Speer, Governor Henry Augustus Buchtel, Will Evans, and many others. When first published, The Beast was considered every bit the equal Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and sold over 500,000 copies. More than just a fascinating slice of Denver history, this book—and Lindsey’s court— offered widespread social change in the United States.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-06-30
Mått150 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt456 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTimberline Books
Antal sidor354
FörlagUniversity Press of Colorado
ISBN9780870819537

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The founding judge of Denver’s Juvenile Court from 1900 to 1927, Benjamin Barr Lindsey is credited as a pioneer of the U.S. juvenile court system. A 1914 poll ranked Lindsey among the ten greatest living Americans, along with by Thomas Edison and Theodore Roosevelt, but by 1929 he was ousted from his judgeship, was disbarred in the State of Colorado, and is now almost forgotten. He authored many other books during his lifetime, including The Revolt of Modern Youth (with Wainwright Evans, 1925), The Companionate Marriage (with Wainwright Evans, 1927), and his autobiography The Dangerous Life (with Rube Burrough,1931).

; CONTENTS; Introduction; The Beast; I.; Finding the Cat; II.; The Cat Purrs; III.; The Cat Keeps on Purring; IV.; The Beast in the Democracy; V.; The Beast in the County Court; VI.; The Beast and the Children; VII.; The Beast, Graft and Business; VIII.; At Work with the Children; IX.; The Beast and the Ballot; X.; The Beast and the Ballot (Continued); XI.; The Beast at Bay; XII.; The Beast and the Supreme Court; XIII.; The Beast and Reform; XIV.; A City Pillaged; XV.; The Beast, the Church and the Governorship; XVI.; Hunting the Beast; XVII.; A Victory at Last; XVIII.; Conclusion;