Beast

The founding judge of Denver’s Juvenile Court from 1900 to 1927, Benjamin Barr Lindsey is credited as a pioneer of the U.S. juvenile court system. A 1914 poll ranked Lindsey among the ten greatest living Americans, along with by Thomas Edison and Theodore Roosevelt, but by 1929 he was ousted from his judgeship, was disbarred in the State of Colorado, and is now almost forgotten. He authored many other books during his lifetime, including The Revolt of Modern Youth (with Wainwright Evans, 1925), The Companionate Marriage (with Wainwright Evans, 1927), and his autobiography The Dangerous Life (with Rube Burrough,1931).

• ; CONTENTS; Introduction; The Beast; I.; Finding the Cat; II.; The Cat Purrs; III.; The Cat Keeps on Purring; IV.; The Beast in the Democracy; V.; The Beast in the County Court; VI.; The Beast and the Children; VII.; The Beast, Graft and Business; VIII.; At Work with the Children; IX.; The Beast and the Ballot; X.; The Beast and the Ballot (Continued); XI.; The Beast at Bay; XII.; The Beast and the Supreme Court; XIII.; The Beast and Reform; XIV.; A City Pillaged; XV.; The Beast, the Church and the Governorship; XVI.; Hunting the Beast; XVII.; A Victory at Last; XVIII.; Conclusion;