@booklet {1781, title = {The Child Buyer: A Novel in the Form of Hearings Before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, \& Public Morality of a certain State Senate, Investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to Purchase a Male Child}, year = {1960}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1961. U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961. A play was written by Paul Shyre, The Child Buyer: A Drama in Three Acts Adapted from the Novel by John Hersey. London: Samuel French, 1962. It was first performed May 3, 1962, by The Theatre Group at UCLA and had a brief run in New York in 1969-70.\ 

}, month = {1960}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia concerned with a corporate attempt to establish a pool of pliant brain power by purchasing children when very young and conditioning them to solve complex problems. The conditioning includes complete isolation, emptying the mind of all knowledge and emotion, feeding it the data need to solve the problems, and eliminating all the senses except a limited sense of touch.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Richard] Hersey (1914-93)} }