In search of Sacco and Vanzetti : double lives, troubled times, and the Massachusetts murder case that shook the world
Tried and convicted for robbery and murder in broad daylight on the streets of South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian-born laborers went to the electric chair in 1927, professing their innocence. After years of researching the case, the author discovered little-known facts about Sacco and Vanzetti and their supporters, and developed a theory about how a doomed insider may have been coerced into helping professional criminals plan the heist. The book also paints a portrait of a bygone era: Providence gangsters and Boston Brahmins; nighttime raids and midnight bombings; immigration, unionism, draft dodging, and violent anarchism in the turbulent early years of the twentieth century.--From book jacket
Print Book, English, ©2012
Northeastern University Press, Boston, ©2012