Record details

• ISBN: 0679720235
• ISBN: 9780679720232
• Physical Description: xvii, 537 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st Vintage books ed.
• Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1989, ©1984.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, ©1984.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-518) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part one : Laurent Clerc's story -- My new family -- The Shepherd and the symbol -- High theater -- A Tale based on fact -- The Secret -- Success and failure -- Fortune and misfortune -- Spreading the word -- Concerning women, and further progress of the deaf in America -- A Dangerous incursion -- Part two : Continuation -- The Denial -- The Incurable deafness -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography, with a guide for the student of deaf history -- Index.

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Subject:

Clerc, Laurent, 1785-1869.
Clerc, Laurent, 1785-1869.
Clerc, Laurent, 1785-1869.
Deaf > History.
Deaf > Biography.
Deaf > Education > History.
Discrimination in education > History.
Deaf.
Deaf > Education.
Discrimination in education.
Deaf.

Genre:

Biographies.
Biography.
History.