DOING JUSTICE: THE CHOICE OF PUNISHMENT
New York: Hill and Wang, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xli, 179 pages. In Very Good condition. Silver spine with yellow and black titling. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover, price uncut "$9.95", has light age toning, and minor shelf wear. Boards have stains to the spine ends and joints. Textblock has minor soiling to top edges. Inscribed on the front free end page, "To Susan Sheehan, with admiration for her description of what life inside prisons is really like", signature is illegible. Shelved in Room A octavo overflow.
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Special Collections - Upstairs
Price: $100
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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.