Tragedy in Dedham
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Tragedy in Dedham

The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case

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Tragedy in Dedham

The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case

About this book

This book examines the 1921 murder trial of Italian-born anarchists Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
"Incredibly—after all that has been said—the Sacco and Vanzetti case comes up in a major and moving work. This is probably the best, certainly the most painstaking and panoramic book yet written about America's tortuous cause celebre. Francis Russell has produced a remarkable reconstruction, full of conflicting personalities and particulars set against a social background of irreconcilable positions, heartfelt passions. Vanzetti, a fishpeddler who read Darwin and Marx, Dante and Renan, and Sacco, a piece worker with wife and children, were both members of a New England anarchist group, and both were Italian immigrants "nameless, in a crowd of nameless ones." Accused of murdering a South Braintree paymaster and his guard, their subsequent trial, extending over seven years, influenced the spirit of the twenties from Massachusetts to Europe and ignited a courtroom drama unlike anything seen before (a browbeating district attorney, a self-sacrificing lawyer, a rasping judge, the Madeiros' "confession, " demonstrations, bombings and bombast), only to end in the electric chair for the defendants. It also had its share of double-edged ironies: at a time when anarchists were being secretly liquidated in the Soviet, the Communist International was calling for propagandistic party-line support of the two "martyrs, " and, on the other hand, old Yankee fear of radicalism and revolution was openly prejudicing the jury, thus Sacco and Vanzetti became pawns in the "class struggles" of both sides. As to the author's verdict: Vanzetti was innocent, Sacco guilty; of this recent ballistic tests leave small doubt. A stunning study."—Kirkus Reviews

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Information

Publisher
Barakaldo Books
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781839745959
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. CHRONOLOGY
  4. MAP
  5. CHAPTER ONE-THE TRAGEDY IN DEDHAM
  6. CHAPTER TWO-HISTORY, WRITTEN AND OTHERWISE
  7. CHAPTER THREE-APRIL 15, 1920
  8. CHAPTER FOUR-BRIDGEWATER AND WEST BRIDGEWATER
  9. CHAPTER FIVE-THE NIGHT OF MAY 5
  10. CHAPTER SIX-THE MEN AND THE TIMES
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN-THE PLYMOUTH TRIAL
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT-THE YEAR BETWEEN
  13. CHAPTER NINE-THE TRIAL: I
  14. CHAPTER TEN-THE TRIAL: II
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN-THE TRIAL: III
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE-POST-TRIAL: I
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN-POST-TRIAL: II
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN-THE CONFESSIONS
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN-MORE HISTORY, WRITTEN AND OTHERWISE
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN-1926
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN-1927
  22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN-THE PUBLIC AND THE LOWELL COMMITTEE
  23. CHAPTER NINETEEN-AUGUST 1927
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-AFTERMATH
  25. SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  26. ABOUT THE AUTHOR