Books by Ernest Freeberg and Complete Book Reviews

THE EDUCATION OF LAURA BRIDGMAN: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
THE EDUCATION OF LAURA BRIDGMAN: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
Ernest Freeberg, Author . Harvard Univ. $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-674-00589-1
Where Elisabeth Gitter emphasizes Laura Bridgman's intelligence in The Imprisoned Guest (see review, above), perhaps emphasizing it over the ingenuity of her teacher, Samuel Howe, Freeberg brings a more measured and clinical approach to the...
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Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs
Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent
Ernest Freeberg, Author . Harvard Univ. $29.95 (380p) ISBN 978-0-674-02792-3
This account of the trial and jailing of Eugene V. Debs for sedition in opposing WWI will be read by many as a warning for our times, yet it stands on its own as solid history. Remarkably, in 1920 Debs ran—from prison—a clever...
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The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
Ernest Freeberg. Penguin Press, $27.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59420-426-5
In his illuminating newest, Freeberg, a professor of humanities at the University of Tennessee, examines the social, technological, and political context surrounding the development of the electric light bulb and its transformative effects on...
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A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Ernest Freeberg. Basic, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-465-09386-1
University of Tennessee historian Freeberg (The Age of Edison) delivers an evocative biography of Henry Bergh (1813–1888), founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The heir to an industrial fortune, Bergh founded the
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