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In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti : Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World by Susan Tejada (2012, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNortheastern University Press
ISBN-101555537308
ISBN-139781555537302
eBay Product ID (ePID)111376252
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameIn Search of Sacco and Vanzetti : Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World
Publication Year2012
SubjectMurder / General, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), General, Political, Legal History, Criminology
TypeTextbook
AuthorSusan Tejada
Subject AreaLaw, True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight28 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2011-048670
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Journalist Tejada sifts through the evidence from the trial and revelations from documents and testimony uncovered since then, putting her findings in the context of the labor movement and the political unrest of the time. She makes convincing parallels between the anti-anarchism atmosphere surrounding the case and the terrorism-inspired hysteria prompted by 9/11, and carefully documents the indisputable fact that the defendants did not receive a fair trial, even by the lax standards of the day."-Library Journal, "This is a terrific reexamination of the Sacco and Vanzetti case by journalist Tejada, whose lively writing and reporter's eye offer a fresh, invigorating perspective on otherwise familiar characters and historical episodes. She brings the suspense and engagement of a good thriller to the events surrounding the April 1920 murders of a Massachusetts paymaster and security guard. . . . Her examination of the case and her "alternative theory" of their guilt or innocence are both compelling. . . . In the process, she has also written a very entertaining and perceptive history of early twentieth-century radicalism, anarchism, the Wobblies, and the American Labor Movement." --Booklist (starred review), "Journalist Tejada sifts through the evidence from the trial and revelations from documents and testimony uncovered since then, putting her findings in the context of the labor movement and the political unrest of the time. She makes convincing parallels between the anti-anarchism atmosphere surrounding the case and the terrorism-inspired hysteria prompted by 9/11, and carefully documents the indisputable fact that the defendants did not receive a fair trial, even by the lax standards of the day."- Library Journal, The strength of the book lies in its attention to historical context. . . . [Tejada's] research reads like an oral history--a testimony of regional and familial ties--and that makes the book an invaluable record of lived experience. . . . With the realities of people passing and memories lapsing, Tejada's commitment to recording and incorporating these voices in a book-length study of Sacco and Vanzetti is a welcome approach that will surely stand the test of time., "In her gripping and vigorously researched book, Susan Tejada tells the story of Sacco and Vanzetti as it's never been told before. In Tejada's hands, this is a tale not of one tragedy but two men, whose guilt or innocence, even eighty-five years after their execution, remains a tantalizing mystery."--Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic "Susan Tejada gives us Sacco and Vanzetti as real human beings ripe with complexity, which makes their sad case all the more compelling. In the process, she opens a window on a younger America, and presents this cause célèbre case as what it is, a classic drama of an unsolved crime cutting so close to society's rawest nerves that it can still spark heated arguments a century later. This is an important story told well."--Kenneth D. Ackerman, author of Young J. Edgar: Hoover and the Red Scare, 1919-1920, "This is a terrific reexamination of the Sacco and Vanzetti case by journalist Tejada, whose lively writing and reporter's eye offer a fresh, invigorating perspective on otherwise familiar characters and historical episodes. She brings the suspense and engagement of a good thriller to the events surrounding the April 1920 murders of a Massachusetts paymaster and security guard. . . . Her examination of the case and her "alternative theory" of their guilt or innocence are both compelling. . . . In the process, she has also written a very entertaining and perceptive history of early twentieth-century radicalism, anarchism, the Wobblies, and the American Labor Movement." - Booklist (starred review), "This is a terrific reexamination of the Sacco and Vanzetti case by journalist Tejada, whose lively writing and reporter's eye offer a fresh, invigorating perspective on otherwise familiar characters and historical episodes. She brings the suspense and engagement of a good thriller to the events surrounding the April 1920 murders of a Massachusetts paymaster and security guard. . . . Her examination of the case and her "alternative theory" of their guilt or innocence are both compelling. . . . In the process, she has also written a very entertaining and perceptive history of early twentieth-century radicalism, anarchism, the Wobblies, and the American Labor Movement.", "Journalist Tejada sifts through the evidence from the trial and revelations from documents and testimony uncovered since then, putting her findings in the context of the labor movement and the political unrest of the time. She makes convincing parallels between the anti-anarchism atmosphere surrounding the case and the terrorism-inspired hysteria prompted by 9/11, and carefully documents the indisputable fact that the defendants did not receive a fair trial, even by the lax standards of the day."--Library Journal, "This is a terrific reexamination of the Sacco and Vanzetti case by journalist Tejada, whose lively writing and reporter's eye offer a fresh, invigorating perspective on otherwise familiar characters and historical episodes. She brings the suspense and engagement of a good thriller to the events surrounding the April 1920 murders of a Massachusetts paymaster and security guard. . . . Her examination of the case and her "alternative theory" of their guilt or innocence are both compelling. . . . In the process, she has also written a very entertaining and perceptive history of early twentieth-century radicalism, anarchism, the Wobblies, and the American Labor Movement." -Booklist (starred review), "This is a terrific reexamination of the Sacco and Vanzetti case by journalist Tejada, whose lively writing and reporter's eye offer a fresh, invigorating perspective on otherwise familiar characters and historical episodes. She brings the suspense and engagement of a good thriller to the events surrounding the April 1920 murders of a Massachusetts paymaster and security guard. . . . Her examination of the case and her "alternative theory" of their guilt or innocence are both compelling. . . . In the process, she has also written a very entertaining and perceptive history of early twentieth-century radicalism, anarchism, the Wobblies, and the American Labor Movement." -- Booklist (starred review) "Journalist Tejada sifts through the evidence from the trial and revelations from documents and testimony uncovered since then, putting her findings in the context of the labor movement and the political unrest of the time. She makes convincing parallels between the anti-anarchism atmosphere surrounding the case and the terrorism-inspired hysteria prompted by 9/11, and carefully documents the indisputable fact that the defendants did not receive a fair trial, even by the lax standards of the day."-- Library Journal "The strength of the book lies in its attention to historical context. . . . [Tejada's] research reads like an oral history--a testimony of regional and familial ties--and that makes the book an invaluable record of lived experience. . . . With the realities of people passing and memories lapsing, Tejada's commitment to recording and incorporating these voices in a book-length study of Sacco and Vanzetti is a welcome approach that will surely stand the test of time." -- Italian American Review, "Journalist Tejada sifts through the evidence from the trial and revelations from documents and testimony uncovered since then, putting her findings in the context of the labor movement and the political unrest of the time. She makes convincing parallels between the anti-anarchism atmosphere surrounding the case and the terrorism-inspired hysteria prompted by 9/11, and carefully documents the indisputable fact that the defendants did not receive a fair trial, even by the lax standards of the day."ÑLibrary Journal, Journalist Tejada sifts through the evidence from the trial and revelations from documents and testimony uncovered since then, putting her findings in the context of the labor movement and the political unrest of the time. She makes convincing parallels between the anti-anarchism atmosphere surrounding the case and the terrorism-inspired hysteria prompted by 9/11, and carefully documents the indisputable fact that the defendants did not receive a fair trial, even by the lax standards of the day., "The strength of the book lies in its attention to historical context. . . . [Tejada's] research reads like an oral history-a testimony of regional and familial ties-and that makes the book an invaluable record of lived experience. . . . With the realities of people passing and memories lapsing, Tejada's commitment to recording and incorporating these voices in a book-length study of Sacco and Vanzetti is a welcome approach that will surely stand the test of time." - Italian American Review, "The strength of the book lies in its attention to historical context. . . . [Tejada's] research reads like an oral history-a testimony of regional and familial ties-and that makes the book an invaluable record of lived experience. . . . With the realities of people passing and memories lapsing, Tejada's commitment to recording and incorporating these voices in a book-length study of Sacco and Vanzetti is a welcome approach that will surely stand the test of time." -Italian American Review, The strength of the book lies in its attention to historical context. . . . [Tejada's] research reads like an oral history-a testimony of regional and familial ties-and that makes the book an invaluable record of lived experience. . . . With the realities of people passing and memories lapsing, Tejada's commitment to recording and incorporating these voices in a book-length study of Sacco and Vanzetti is a welcome approach that will surely stand the test of time.
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal364.152/30922744 B
Table Of ContentIntroduction Note on the Text 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 Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Selected Bibliography Index
SynopsisIt 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.Tejada's close-up view of the case allows readers to see those involved as individual personalities. 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., 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. Tejada's close-up view of the case allows readers to see those involved as individual personalities. 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.
LC Classification NumberHX843.7.S23T45 2012
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