Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey's expose of big business's influence on
Colorado and Denver politics, a best seller when it was originally
published in 1911, is now back in print. This book reveals the
plight of working-class Denver citizens -- in particular those
Denver youths who ended up in Lindsey's court day after day. These
encounters led him to create the juvenile court, one of the first
courts in the country set up to deal specifically with young
delinquents. In addition, Lindsey exposes the darker side of many
well-known figures in Colorado history, including Mayor Robert W.
Speer, Governor Henry Augustus Buchtel, Will Evans, and many
others. When first published, "The Beast" was considered every bit
the equal Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" and sold over 500,000
copies. More than just a fascinating slice of Denver history, this
book -- and Lindsey's court -- offered widespread social change in
the United States.
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