A Mad World and Its Inhabitants

Julius Chambers

ISBN 10: 1646798902 / ISBN 13: 9781646798902

Published by Cosimo Feb 1905, 1905

About this Item

Neuware - '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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Mad World and Its Inhabitants
• Publisher: Cosimo Feb 1905
• Publication Date: 1905
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1646798902
• ISBN 13: 9781646798902
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 13D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 299 grams

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Synopsis

"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.

About the Author

JULIUS CHAMBERS (1850-1920) was a muckraking journalist, assigned by the Tribune to impersonate a madman in an insane asylum. Chambers also wrote for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and taught at Cornell and NYU.