Sacco and Vanzetti The Anarchist Background / Paul Avrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Avrich, Paul., Author.

Contributor:

Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927.

Sacco, Nicola.

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927.

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1996.

Summary:

The Sacco-Vanzetti affair is the most famous and controversial case in American legal history. It divided the nation in the 1920s, and it has continued to arouse deep emotions, giving rise to an enormous literature. Few writers, however, have consulted anarchist sources for the wealth of information available there about the movement of which the defendants were a part. Now Paul Avrich, the preeminent American scholar of anarchism, looks at the case from this new and valuable perspective. This book treats a dramatic and hitherto neglected aspect of the cause célèbre that raised, according to Edmund Wilson, "almost every fundamental question of our political and social system."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE Immigrants

CHAPTER ONE Italian Childhoods

CHAPTER TWO Free Country

CHAPTER THREE Vanzetti

CHAPTER FOUR Anarchists

CHAPTER FIVE Mexico

PART TWO Red Scare

CHAPTER SIX Face to Face with the Enemy

CHAPTER SEVEN Carlo and Ella

CHAPTER EIGHT Deportations Delirium

CHAPTER NINE Go-Head!

CHAPTER TEN Plain Words

PART THREE Repression

CHAPTER ELEVEN Manhunt

CHAPTER TWELVE The Spy

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Death of Salsedo

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Arrest

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-255) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691216201

0691216207

OCLC:

1227052153