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Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First edition. 698pp. Octavo [25cm]. Blue cloth over boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine and front board alongside decorative blind stamping. Floral endpapers. Rubbing to extremities. Light soiling to boards. Ex-library with markings. Abrasion to rear pastedown. Front hinge cracked. Late 19th century American propoganda. A thourough and heavily illustrated overview of the Haymarket affair and subsequent investigations and trial, as told by a Chicago Police Captain. Additionally, Michael J. Schaak was a colleague of the officer who led the police into the gathered crowd--striking for an eight-hour workday--at Haymarket Square, Inspector John Bonfield. Both were later dismissed following a corruption investigation which uncovered perjured testimony by police witnesses and jury rigging by the prosecution.