Beschreibung:
Dave Bakke is senior writer at the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Illinois. With Dale Hamm, he is the author of The Last of the Market Hunters.
A reconstruction of the life of John Doe No 24, the deaf and mute black man who survived institutionalized hell. It uses research into a half-century of the American state mental health system, personal interviews with people who knew him at various points during his life, and illustrations.