Nellie Bly: The Reckless Life of the Reporter Who Went Inside for Teens

In September 1887, a twenty-three-year-old woman checked into a New York boardinghouse and spent one night staring at the other residents until somebody called the police. Doctors examined her. Every one of them declared her insane. She was put on a ferry to the asylum on Blackwell's Island, where sixteen hundred women were held and nobody outside believed a word any of them said.She was a reporte...