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Nobody's Boy and His Pals
The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys' Brotherhood Republic
By: Hendrik Hartog
Paperback | 23 September 2024 | Edition Number 1
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An engaging account of social reformer Jack Robbins, the Boys' Brotherhood Republic, and their legacy.
In 1914, social reformer Jack Robbins and a group of adolescent boys in Chicago founded the Boys' Brotherhood Republic, an unconventional and unusual institution. During a moral panic about delinquent boys, Robbins did not seek to rehabilitate and/or punish wayward youths. Instead, the boys governed themselves, democratically and with compassion for one another, and lived by their mantra "So long as there are boys in trouble, we too are in trouble." For nearly thirty years, Robbins was their "supervisor," and the will he drafted in the late 1950s suggests that he continued to care about forgotten boys, even as the political and legal contexts that shaped children's lives changed dramatically.
Nobody's Boy and His Pals is a lively investigation that challenges our ideas about the history of American childhood and the law. Scouring the archives for traces of the elusive Jack Robbins, Hendrik Hartog examines the legal histories of Progressive reform, childhood, criminality, repression, and free speech. The curiosity of Robbins's story is compounded by the legal challenges to his will, which wound up establishing the extent to which last wishes must conform to dominant social values. Filled with persistent mysteries and surprising connections, Nobody's Boy and His Pals illuminates themes of childhood and adolescence, race and ethnicity, sexuality, wealth and poverty, and civil liberties, across the American Century.
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"Why would a man living in the midst of the anti Communism mania of the 1959s leave his self-created wealth to provide for support of children whose parents had been convicted of political crime? Hartog's curiosity about this small matter leads to virtuoso research and now this fascinating book shining a light on inventive efforts to encourage young people, prevent crime and mobilize volunteers to help. It also offers intriguing glimpses of the fledgling industries of advertising, journalism, animation and ice cream franchises - and idealism, and human kindness remote from the prosecutors, social workers, and criminal systems of mass incarceration. Nobody's Boy and His Pals is a gem!" -- Martha Minow, author of 'When Should Law Forgive?'
"Hartog is a brilliant storyteller and this is stunning, prescient history writing. He raises important questions about how legal historians should address the diverse and strange lives of those women and men who are frequently neglected." -- David Sugarman, Lancaster University
ISBN: 9780226834375
ISBN-10: 0226834379
Published: 23rd September 2024
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.0 x 15.5 x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.48
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