Nobody's Boy and His Pals - Hendrik Hartog

Nobody's Boy and His Pals

The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic

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Buch | Hardcover
328 Seiten
2024
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83435-1 (ISBN)
114,70 inkl. MwSt
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. 
 

Hendrik Hartog is Princeton University’s Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus. For more than a decade, he directed Princeton’s American Studies program. He is the author of Man and Wife in America, Someday All This Will Be Yours, and The Trouble with Minna, among other books.  

Introduction
(One) The Big Brother
(Two) On the Boy Problem
(Three) Jack Robbins, Supervisor, and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic
(Four) As Clara Laughlin Saw It: War, Energy, and Democracy
(Five) Who Was Jack Robbins? Or, Things Unsaid, 1920–1958
(Six) Jack Robbins’s Will
(Seven) Enter the Lawyers
(Eight) And Then What Happened?
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 22 halftones
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 594 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-226-83435-2 / 0226834352
ISBN-13 978-0-226-83435-1 / 9780226834351
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