All the Right Enemies - Softcover

Gallagher, D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140124004 ISBN 13: 9780140124002

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1989

Synopsis

Traces the life of the Italian-born radical, examines his work with the IWW, and explains the circumstances surrounding his murder

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Carlo Tresca, flamboyant American anarchist leader, was a working-class hero at the time of his 1943 assassination in New York by contract killer Carmine Galante. Today, he is nearly forgotten, as is the unresolved mystery of who ordered his murderMussolini, fascists in the U.S., the Comintern or the Mafia. This first biography of Tresca is levelheaded and exhaustively researched. Gallagher (Hannah's Daughters) dutifully covers Tresca's conversion from socialism to anarchism, his long romance with communist organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, his numerous love affairs and skirmishes with conspirators and agents of every stripe. Sacco and Vanzetti, John Reed, Emma Goldman and John Dos Passos figure in the narrative. The second half of the book, a reappraisal of the Tresca murder case, sheds light on the U.S. government's wartime collaboration with the mob and its shadowy links to the narcotics trade. Photos not seen by PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140124004
• ISBN 13: 9780140124002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352