From the Shelves at Castlemoyle.com
Original Price: $25.00
Your Price: $8.95
You Save: $16.05
State Boys Rebellion\The
Category: History: U.S.: 20th Century
Author: Michael D'Antonio
Copyright/published Year: 2004 by Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0743245121
Binding: Cloth
At age seven, an orphan boy named Freddie Boyce finally
believed he had found a real home with a kindly widow who raised
foster children on her farm in rural Massachusetts. But when his
foster mother died in the winter of 1949, Freddie was subjected
to a rudimentary IQ test and then sent to a state institution for
the feebleminded. There, along with other relatively normal State
Boys, he would endure neglect, abuse, and terror and live without
the hope of ever being free again. Though they couldn't possibly
know it, the children of the Fernald State School were the
victims of bad science and a newly developed bureaucracy designed
to save America from the so-called "menace of the feebleminded."
The State Boys Rebellion is the dramatic and meticulously
researched true story of Fred Boyce and a group of boys who never
accepted their incarceration at the Fernald State School in
Massachusetts.
Condition Information
This book is 'remaindered' and may have marks on the cover and/or bottom of pages.
Comments to: castlemoyle.com
© Castlemoyle Books and Gifts
Office hours are 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Pacific Time)
We are closed weekends and U.S. Holidays
Castlemoyle Books
694 Main Street
Mail: PO Box 520
Pomeroy WA 99347
Phone: 509-843-5009
email: info@castlemoyle.com
Page Name: www.castlemoyle.com/shopping/display.asp?idno=HIST35682
