Abstract
Who speaks for Joshua? An angry and frustrated Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun implicitly raised question in 1989 in reviewing case of Joshua DeShaney, whose parents had beaten him so badly that he was permanently disabled.' Although Blackmun's question was rhetorical, most citizens then and today would be hardpressed to provide an answer. This was not always case. During first half of twentieth century most Americans would have answered, U.S. Children's Bureau. Now, thanks to Kriste Lindenmeyer, associate professor of history at Tennessee Technological University, we can understand more clearly why Americans before 1950 assigned care and protection of its most vulnerable citizens to a federal bureaucracy. Lindenmeyer's signal achievement is to have written best comprehensive study of U.S. Children's Bureau, the first governmental agency in world created solely to consider problems of (p. 30). Her tale is that of an institution that rose from humble beginnings to exercise considerable influence in nation's child welfare affairs before
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