Having never read or heard anything about Joe Smith outside the realm of Mormonism, this account of his life and the early days of Mormons was pretty intense and wild, compared to the reverence and subtlety I was taught about him when I was a kid. I wonder how much of the book I can trust as a r...
Alex Beam’s, “Gracefully Insane” presents a unique look at the development and history of mental health in America, framed in the focus of one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious asylums (later to be known as a mental health hospital). Narrowing his investigation to just one institution a...
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The Globe allowed me ample time to pursue this project over the past several years. Editor Matt Storin and Managing Editor/Administration Louisa Williams approved my requests for leave. My supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor for Features Mary Jane Wilkinson, was extremely generous in granting me t...
