In search of Sacco and Vanzetti :: double lives, troubled times, and the Massachusetts murder case that shook the world /

"An in-depth reexamination with startling new insights into the controversial case It was a bold and brutal crime--robbery and murder in broad daylight on the streets of South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920. Tried for the crime and convicted, two Italian-born laborers, anarchists Nicola Sacc...

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1. Verfasser: Tejada, Susan Mondshein, 1945-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston : Northeastern University Press, ©2012.
Schriftenreihe:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
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Zusammenfassung:"An in-depth reexamination with startling new insights into the controversial case It was a bold and brutal crime--robbery and murder in broad daylight on the streets of South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920. Tried for the crime and convicted, two Italian-born laborers, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, went to the electric chair in 1927, professing their innocence. Journalist Susan Tejada has spent years investigating the case, sifting through diaries and police reports and interviewing descendants of major figures. She discovers little-known facts about Sacco, Vanzetti, and their supporters, and develops a tantalizing theory about how a doomed insider may have been coerced into helping professional criminals plan the heist. The author takes a panoramic view of the case, allowing the reader to see the personalities as individuals. She also paints a fascinating portrait of a bygone era: Providence gangsters and Boston Brahmins; nighttime raids and midnight bombings; and immigration, unionism, draft dodging, and violent anarchism in the turbulent early years of the twentieth century. In many ways this is as much a cultural history as a true-crime mystery or courtroom drama. Because the case played out against a background of domestic terrorism, in a time that echoes our own, we have a new appreciation of the potential connection between fear and the erosion of civil liberties and miscarriages of justice."--Project Muse.
An in-depth reexamination with startling new insights into the controversial case.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 385 pages :)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781555537784
1555537782
128001055X
9781280010552
9786613512307
6613512303

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