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<p> Much of the material presented is dramatic enough in itself to interest a general reader . . . . The research is thorough and the documentation complete . . . . Certainly no one doing research in the history of American penology could afford to neglect this book, and students of New York State history will find no better account of one of the state's most significant social reforms, the Auburn penal system. The Historian

<p> Much of the material presented is dramatic enough in itself to interest a general reader . . . . The research is thorough and the documentation complete . . . . Certainly no one doing research in the history of American penology could afford to neglect this book, and students of New York State history will find no better account of one of the state's most significant social reforms, the Auburn penal system. -The Historian

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W. David Lewis was, until his death in September 2007, a Distinguished University Professor at Auburn University. His other books include Iron and Steel in America and Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century.

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