Sacco and Vanzetti : : The Anarchist Background / / Paul Avrich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Avrich, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 26 halftones

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."

Table of 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