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...DISCOVERY OF THE ASYLUM by David J. Rothman. 376 pages. Little, Brown...
Depraved Man. Such measures were quite revolutionary compared with what preceded them, as David Rothman, an associate professor of history at Columbia University, documents in this tightly focused study of the treatment of "deviant" behavior in Jacksonian America. During the colonial and post-Revolutionary periods, older ideologies had prevailed. Then it was held that deviance was caused by the depraved nature of man, not society. God had so ordained, and John Calvin so maintained. Punishments did not so much fit the crime as the criminal. A man of property would usually be fined; a man without property was whipped. Since...
...MARSHALL ROTHMAN Fall River, Mass...
Producers Benjamin and Lawrence Rothman have pointedly avoided the customary chamber-of-horrors approach in their documentary history of the Polish Jews. There are no closeups of bulldozers pushing bodies into mass graves, no shots of the prisoners of Treblinka and Auschwitz. The narra tor, Theodore Bikel, never raises his voice a decibel above conversational level. Instead, with a rare collection of stills and film clips, the movie quietly tells the history of Jewish life in Poland, a history that took a millennium to evolve and four years to be obliterated...
Also, Michael A. Lerner, Lawrence Lipson, Harrison G. Lowry, John P. Lynch, Donald G. Marshall, Jeffrey S. Mehlman, Theodore H. Moran, Miles Morgan, Lester R. Morss, Martin A. Nurmi, Roger D. Nussbaum, Charles H. Rammelkamp, Michael Reiss, Sherman Robinson. David N. Rosen, William D. Rothman, Stephen R. Sacks, Robert M. Shapley, Henry F. Smith III, Thomas E. Staley, Phillip G. Stanley, A. Thomas Tymoczko, Owen S. Walker, James D. Wilkinson, and Peter W. Williams...