Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David L. Marcus uses all of his journalistic skills to delve into the topic of why teenagers with many advantages and opportunities find themselves in deep trouble. He spends 14 months with an incoming class of students at the Academy at Swift River, a for-profit, therapeutic boarding school. The Academy at Swift River is known for using Outward Bound or adventure education techniques in addition to group therapy and a rigorous academic curriculum to produce positive results in “at risk teenagers.” …
David L. Marcus: What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get Into Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out
Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY, 2005, 338 pp (Hardback)
