Until They Bring the Streetcars Back
Stanley West's novel Amos (produced as a CBS Movie of the Week  starring Kirk Douglas) stirred national controversy over abuse of the  aged in America.  When Kirk Douglas testified before congress and wrote  in the New York Times on the issue, he pointed out that animals had  been protected by law for one hundred years before children or the  aged. West's Amos  focused on the aged; his current novel exposes the  other horn of that disgrace.