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Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights
Claggett, Charles E., Jr.
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Description for Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights
Hardback. In 1959, at the age of twenty-one, Max Starkloff was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. How did this young man with barely a high school education become the leader of a powerful disability rights movement and the founder of the Starkloff Disability Institute? This is his remarkable story. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: JFFG; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 794.
In 1959, at the age of twenty-one, Max Starkloff was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. His doctors doubted he would live longer than a few days, and, if he survived, the hope for his quality of life would be minimal. How did this young man with barely a high school education become the leader of a powerful disability rights movement and the founder of the Starkloff Disability Institute? This is his remarkable story. Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights takes readers on an extraordinary odyssey of hope and resilience-from Starkloff's twelve ... Read more
In 1959, at the age of twenty-one, Max Starkloff was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. His doctors doubted he would live longer than a few days, and, if he survived, the hope for his quality of life would be minimal. How did this young man with barely a high school education become the leader of a powerful disability rights movement and the founder of the Starkloff Disability Institute? This is his remarkable story. Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights takes readers on an extraordinary odyssey of hope and resilience-from Starkloff's twelve ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Missouri Historical Society Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781883982799
SKU
V9781883982799
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About Claggett, Charles E., Jr.
Charles E. Claggett Jr. is marketing vice president at Warson Brands and serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including the Starkloff Disability Institute and Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis. Richard H. Weiss is an award-winning writer and editor with more than three decades of experience.
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