Forest Books: Christopher Krentz Mighty Change

This volume contains original writing by deaf people that both directed and reflected a remarkable period of change in the first half of the nineteenth century in America. Included are works by the deaf Frenchman Laurent Clerc; James Nack, a deaf poet; author of essays, fiction and poems, John Burnet; journalist Edmund Booth; John Carlin who galvanized the drive for a national college for deaf people; reporter Laura Redden and Adele Jewel, a homeless deaf woman living in Michigan. Paperback 224 pages November 2000