Anthony M Platt Author

Anthony M. Platt is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Sacramento, where he has taught since 1977. His books include The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (1969); The Politics of Riot Commissions, 1917-1970 (MacMillan, 1971); and E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered (Rutgers University, 1991). His essays have appeared in Monthly Review, Z magazine, Los Angeles Times and Souls. Cecilia E. O’Leary is Associate Professor of American History at California State University, Monterey Bay, and author of To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism (1999).