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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9781595310118
ISBN number: 1595310118
Label: Pine Tree Press
Manufacturer: Pine Tree Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 306
Printing Date: October 01, 2006
Publishing house: Pine Tree Press
Release Date: October 01, 2006
Sale Popularity Level: 1571533
Studio: Pine Tree Press
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In 1914, many people in America were being wrongly diagnosed as 'morons'. Most were committed to asylums. Some committed suicide. Two were childhood friends who became involved in the tragedy of America's very first school teacher murder in Poland, New York. The ensuing trial was held in the same Herkimer courthouse as the Gillette-Brown murder case. The trial, which focused on the violent nature of the crime and the 'degenerate' behavior of the defendant, quickly eclipsed the Adirondack murder as Upstate New York's 'Trial of the Century.' Fast-paced and suspenseful, anchored in historical fact, Lullaby For Morons takes us into a dark age of medical and legal thinking and the even darker paranoid world of misdiagnosed victims struggling to survive.
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Although a fictionalized account, this is a truth revealing book. Self-proclaimed experts, hysteria, and a full range of human behaviors emanating from ignorance, fear, compassion, bewilderment and pain are explored. A shocking testimony to what has been allowed to occur, and an awakening to be wary of similar manipulations of hysteria in our own time and place, for although the book cover calls this is a story of a "Dark Age," it is neither so long ago nor far from occurring again in another guise. I highly recommend this book for the historical rendering, the good story telling, and for further reflection.
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This book is shocking in that it reveals the prejudices & dearth of understanding still prevalent into the 20th century. I live in the area of the crime and I'm acquainted with the very fine present-day members of the G. family. Just by coincidence, when I was a child, I met the expert witness Dr. Bernstein as I had close relatives who worked in the colony system of the Rome State School.
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This was a book I could not put down - it kept me up late because I just had to finish it. Based on the actual 1914 murder trial of 16 year old Jean Gianini, Dr. Siegel has woven a tale which is at once a psychological thriller, a murder mystery, and an indictment of medical misdiagnosis in the early 1900's. I strongly recommend this as a fascinating "can't-put-down" read. My sister, to whom I lent the book, had the same experience as I did, by the way- she also could not put it down!
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