The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair : America on trial /
What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal scandal as the perception grew that their conviction was a judicial travesty and their execution a political murder. This book is the first to revea...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
©2009.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1nq47b |
Table of Contents:
- The two most famous prisoners in the world : from case to affair
- Americans divided : foreign interference and the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
- This frightful America whose heart is made of stone : the transatlantic affair
- The mob of broadcloth-coated, heavy-jowled gentlemen : the Lowell Commission and the aftermath of the affair
- A kind of madness : the return of Sacco and Vanzetti
- Postscript : the place of Sacco and Vanzetti.