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Miracle at Sing Sing: How One Man Transformed the Lives of America's Most Dangerous Prisoners Hardback - 2004

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Author: Blumenthal, Ralph
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In 1919, Lewis E. Lawes moved his wife and young daughters into the warden's mansion at Sing Sing prison. They shared a yard with 1, 096 of the toughest inmates in the world-murderers, rapists, and thieves who Lawes alone believed capable of redemption. Adamantly opposed to the death penalty, Lawes presided over 300 executions. His progressive ideas shocked many, but he taught the nation that a prison was a community. He allowed a kidnapper to care for his children and a cutthroat to shave him every morning. He organized legendary football games for his "boys," and befriended Hollywood greats such as Charlie Chaplin and Humphrey Bogart. This is "A story almost too good to be true, but too true to miss." -Mario Cuomo

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From the water it looked like an old New England factory, maybe a knitting mill, red brick with neat rows of white-framed windows, tall gray smoke-stacks, a railroad track, and a flagpole with a flapping American flag.

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Title Miracle at Sing Sing: How One Man Transformed the Lives of America's Most Dangerous Prisoners
Author Ralph Blumenthal
Binding Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 320
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher St. Martin's Press, New York
Publication date June 15, 2004
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780312308919 / 0312308914
Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
Dimensions 9.34 x 6.5 x 1.12 in (23.72 x 16.51 x 2.84 cm)
Category Biography / Autobiography
Library of Congress subjects Death row inmates - New York (State), Capital punishment - New York (State)
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003070104
Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Ralph Blumenthal is a longtime investigative reporter at the "New York Times," who now heads the Houston Bureau covering Texas and the southwest. He is also the author of "Stork Club." He received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on this book. He lives in Houston, Texas.

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