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The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption
Author(s): Barbara Bisantz Raymond (Author)
- Publisher: Da Capo Pr
- Publication Date: 11 April 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 307 pages
- ISBN-10: 0786719443
- ISBN-13: 9780786719440
Book Description
Traces the story of a notorious black market baby dealer whose illicit operation between 1920 and 1950 was largely dependent on her success in coercing the abandonment and kidnapping of abused and disadvantaged babies, and who had an unintentional but direct influence on the popularization and corruption of modern adoption practices.
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About the Author
Barbara Raymond has written extensively for Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, McCalls, Parents, Readers Digest, Working Mother, Writers Digest, and USA Today. She contributed to The Handbook of Magazine Article Writing (Writers Digest Books), and was an author of a Good Housekeeping Child Care section that won the National Magazine Award for Public Service. She has been nominated for a National Magazine Award in Reporting and received two awards for feature writing from Women in Communications.
