Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background - Hardcover

Avrich, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691047898 ISBN 13: 9780691047898

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1990

Synopsis

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."

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Sacco-Vanzetti affair is the most famous and controversial case in American legal history. It divided the nation in the 1920's, and it has continued to arouse deep emotions, giving rise to an enormous literature. Rather than focusing on the robbery and murder at the shoe factory near Boston, the infamous trial, and the worldwide protests that it occasioned, this author tells the absorbing stories of the lives of Nicola Sacco, a shoe worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzettil, a fish peddler, both Italian immigrants and anarchists.

About the Author:

Paul Avrich is Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate School, the City University of New York. His books include Anarchist Portraits and The Haymarket Tragedy, published by Princeton University Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0691047898
• ISBN 13: 9780691047898
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280