Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

Awards:   Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction).
Author:   Pete Earley
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
ISBN:  

9780425213896


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   03 April 2007
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness


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  • Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction).

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“A magnificent gift to those of us who love someone who has a mental illness…Earley has used his considerable skills to meticulously research why the mental health system is so profoundly broken.”—Bebe Moore Campbell, author of 72 Hour Hold Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son—in the throes of a manic episode—broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. This is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the “revolving doors” between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an experience little better than the horrors of a century ago. Earley takes us directly into that experience—and into that of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for a better way.

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Author:   Pete Earley
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:   Penguin USA
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.403kg
ISBN:  

9780425213896


ISBN 10:   0425213897
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   03 April 2007
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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[A] clarion call for change and justice, and an enthralling portrait of a father who refused to surrender. (Bebe Moore Campbell)<br><br>Takes readers on a harrowing personal journey... (Senator Pete V. Domenici [R-N.M.] and Nancy Domenici)<br><br>


[A] clarion call for change and justice, and an enthralling portrait of a father who refused to surrender. (Bebe Moore Campbell)Takes readers on a harrowing personal journey... (Senator Pete V. Domenici [R-N.M.] and Nancy Domenici)


[A] clarion call for change and justice, and an enthralling portrait of a father who refused to surrender. (Bebe Moore Campbell)


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"Pete Earley, a former reporter for The Washington Post, is the author of several works of nonfiction, including the bestsellers The Hot House and Family of Spies, and the multi-award-winning Circumstantial Evidence. According to the Washingtonian magazine, he is one of ten journalist/authors in America ""who have the power to introduce new ideas and give them currency."" Earley is also the author of two novels."

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