Prescott, Peter S.

THE CHILD SAVERS: JUVENILE JUSTICE OBSERVED [Signed]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Octavo, 244 pages. In Very Good plus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In white cloth quarter binding with white paper boards. Jacket is tan with dark blue and red lettering; spine sunned to a light green color. Jacket is wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket shows very light shelving wear, with some rubbing at the fore corners and very light wrinkling at the head and tail. Boards are lightly rubbed along edges. Bumping to the bottom fore corners. Slight slant to spine. Very faint foxing to cloth near joints. Text block is lightly age toned and scuffed along the edges. Interior clean. Signed by Prescott to Susan Sheehan on the front flyleaf: "For Susan Sheehan. / with thanks for her support, / Peter S. Prescott / 5/1/81". Shelved in Room F.

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NOTES

Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.