The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-century American Reform
This biography made more vivid than almost anything else I have read the sense of a small group of idealistic friends who believed that society was perfectible and who actually managed in their lifetimes to dream up and make happen an extremely diverse range of reforms, truly changing the treatment of many of the most stigmatized segments of society. . . . This is a book that will provide pleasure and interest to general biography lovers, not just academics and historians. --Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Author of Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture