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Title: Alcatraz Island: Memoirs of a Rock Doc by Milton Daniel, M. D. Beacher, Dianne Beacher Perfit ISBN: 0-9710332-0-X Publisher: Pelican Island Publishing Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: a unique chronicle of jail life
Comment: With the unique perspective of a young doctor on his first assignment to one of the then newest & most unescapable penal colonies in the US, Dr. Beacher's memoir tells the history of Pelican Island from its discovery in the late 1770s to its use for military defense one hundred years later, to its last incarnation as a bleak jail. He also recounts the stories of the many inmates he cared for, where ruthlessness was the norm, both in the colorless, hopeless daily grind & in the unfettered behavior of the guards
I can't say that ALCATRAZ ISLAND is a good read. It is too full of dire, irreparable damage, offering not an iota of redemption. It is a suffocating read, so much so, that I had to do it in small doses, although once I was immersed in its narration, I was enthralled.
If history of prison life interests you, if how the doctors of that time treated their captive patients fascinates you, then ALCATRAZ ISLAND will be a good read for you. It is a thought-provoking book that will linger long in your mind.
Rating: 5
Summary: Written in gut-wrenching descriptive language
Comment: Set in the time of imprisoned gangsters such as Al Capone, Alcatraz Island: Memoirs Of A Rock Doc is the personal story of Milton Daniel Beacher, a physician who cared for the prison population of Alcatraz Island for one year. Deftly edited by Dianne Beacher Perfit, Alcatraz Island is a candid and revealing journal of brutal living conditions, a prisoner's strike, a successful escape, suicides, and much more. A vivid, gripping book, written in gut-wrenching descriptive language that brings the forbidding rock to life, Alcatraz Island is highly recommended reading for students of American penology as well as a riveting autobiography of life behind bars from the unique perspective of a prison doctor.
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Title: Alcatraz Screw: My Years As a Guard in America's Most Notorious Prison by George H. Gregory, John W. Roberts ISBN: 0826213960 Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Alcatraz: A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years by Michael Esslinger ISBN: 0970461402 Publisher: Ocean View Pub. Date: 28 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.99 |
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Title: Eyewitness on Alcatraz: Life on the Rock As Told by the Guards, Families and Prisoners by Jolene Babyak ISBN: 0961875208 Publisher: Ariel Vamp Press Pub. Date: July, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Alcatraz from Inside: The Hard Years 1942-1952 by Jim Quillen ISBN: 0962520616 Publisher: Golden Gate Natl Park Assn Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Breaking the Rock: The Great Escape from Alcatraz by Jolene Babyak ISBN: 0961875232 Publisher: Ariel Vamp Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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