Nobody''s Boy and His Pals - The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys Brotherhood Republic

Informationen zum Autor Hendrik Hartog is Princeton University's Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus. For more than a decade, he directed Princeton's American Studies program. He is the author of Man and Wife in America, Someday All This Will Be Yours, and The Trouble with Minna, among other books. Klappentext "Hendrik Hartog's lively investigation of the legal histories of Progressive reform, childhood, criminality, repression, and free speech revolves around the mysterious Jack Robbins, an iconoclastic social reformer dedicated to the ideals of virtuous boyhood. In early twentieth-century Chicago, Robbins's Boys' Brotherhood Republic sought to keep boys out of the clutches of both vice and the nascent carceral state. The curiosity of Robbins's story is compounded by the racially and politically charged legal case that arose from his will, which established the extent to which last wishes must conform with dominant social values. Hartog crafts a twisty and engaging book full of surprising connections and persistent mysteries"--

Product details

• Authors: Hendrik Hartog
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9780226834375
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83437-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, 20th Century, LAW / Legal History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Legal History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas