A Mad World and Its Inhabitants (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781646798902)

"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.

Author: Julius Chambers
ISBN-10: 1646798902
ISBN-13: 9781646798902
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Language: English
Published: 02/19/1905
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d