The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair : America on trial /
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Author / Creator: | Temkin, Moshik, 1971- |
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Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 316 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11205477 |
ISBN: | 9780300156171 0300156170 0300124848 9780300124842 9786612352003 6612352000 9780300124842 1282352008 9781282352001 |
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Digital file characteristics: | text file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-304) and index. In English. Print version record. |
Summary: | What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal scandal as the perception grew that their conviction was a judicial travesty and their execution a political murder. This book is the first to reveal the full national and international scope of the Sacco-Vanzetti affair, uncovering how and why the two men became the center of a global cause célèbre that shook public opinion and transformed America's relationship with the world. Drawing on extensive research on two continents, and written with verve, this book connects the Sacco-Vanzetti affair to the most polarizing political and social concerns of its era. Moshik Temkin contends that the worldwide attention to the case was generated not only by the conviction that innocent men had been condemned for their radical politics and ethnic origins but also as part of a reaction to U.S. global supremacy and isolationism after World War I. The author further argues that the international protest, which helped make Sacco and Vanzetti famous men, ultimately provoked their executions. The book concludes by investigating the affair's enduring repercussions and what they reveal about global political action, terrorism, jingoism, xenophobia, and the politics of our own time. |
Other form: | Print version: Temkin, Moshik, 1971- Sacco-Vanzetti Affair. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009 9780300124842 |
Standard no.: | 10.12987/9780300156171 |
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