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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
Published Boston : Northeastern University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 385 pages) : illustrations
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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 "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
Analysis Multi-User
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927.
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927.
SUBJECT Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927 fast
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927 fast
Sacco, Nicola. gnd
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo 1888-1927 gnd
Subject Anarchists -- United States -- Biography
Murderers -- United States -- Biography
Murder -- Investigation -- Massachusetts -- Case studies
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
Anarchists
Murder -- Investigation
Murderers
Straftat
Sacco-Vanzetti-Fall
Massachusetts
Massachusetts -- Dedham
United States
Genre/Form True crime stories
Biographies
Case studies
True crime stories.
Récits criminels.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011048670
ISBN 9781555537784
1555537782
128001055X
9781280010552
9786613512307
6613512303
Other Titles In search of Sacco & Vanzetti