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Beast
Lindsey, Benjain B.; O'Higgins, Harvey J.
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Description for Beast
Paperback. Num Pages: 291 pages, 1 b/w photo. BIC Classification: WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of Colorado United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
Colorado, United States
ISBN
9780870819537
SKU
V9780870819537
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About Lindsey, Benjain B.; O'Higgins, Harvey J.
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, ... Read more
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