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Author:

Tejada, Susan Mondshein, 1945-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Northeastern University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xi, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sacco, Nicola,--1891-1927.
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo,--1888-1927.
Anarchists--United States--Biography.
Murderers--United States--Biography.
Murder--Investigation--Massachusetts--Case studies.
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-372 and index.

Contents:

Sudden death -- "This human flotsam" -- Crime wave -- "Organize! O toilers" -- Constructing a case -- "Conscription was upon them" -- Dry run at Plymouth -- "Terrorist plot is seen" -- Dedham: curtain rising -- Docket nos. 5545 and 5546 -- Dedham: curtain falling -- Prison crucible -- Battles in and out of court -- Clinging to razor blades -- Groundswell -- Brink -- Afterlives -- Two mysteries.

Summary:

A re-examination of the controversial 1927 case of two Italian-born laborers and anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who went to the electric chair, all the while professing their innocence.

ISBN:

1555537308 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781555537302 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2011048670

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)