Eastern State Penitentiary: Crucible of Good Intentions
Johnston, Norman Bruce; Finkel, Kenneth; Cohen, Jeffrey A.; Johnson, Norman
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Language: English
Published by Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1994
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1994 Philadelphia Museum of Art for the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site. Fine and unread condition clean tight and bright. Cover is clean and strong with very slight shelf rub at bottom edge.
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- Title
- Eastern State Penitentiary: Crucible of Good Intentions
- Author
- Johnston, Norman Bruce; Finkel, Kenneth; Cohen, Jeffrey A.; Johnson, Norman
- Publisher
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 087633091X
- ISBN 13
- 9780876330913
- Item weight
- 17 ounces
- Dimensions
- 8x0x10
The massive Eastern State Penitentiary in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, now a National Historic Landmark, is remarkable for its innovative architecture and its pioneering system of isolation in individual cells. Heir to the energetic Quaker reformist tradition of the 1820s, the penitentiary was a model of idealism in penal reform and a model of prison architecture for the world, visible in three hundred prisons worldwide that trace their paternity to Eastern State Penitentiary. This book shows how the novel experiment in prison reform contended with the realities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and explores the legacy of this "crucible of good intentions."
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