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Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

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Title: Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
Author: Alex Beam
ISBN: 9781891620751
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

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Publisher Description:
This work is a social history of McLean Hospital - temporary home to many of the troubled genuises of our age, and of the evolution of the treatment of mental illness from the early 19th century to today. Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution - one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America.