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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Author's Preface -- 1 The Runaway Grandmother -- 2 Plymouth Rock -- 3 Dago Red -- 4 Young America -- 5 The Saving Minority -- 6 White Terror -- 7 Deportation Days -- 8 The Detective Machine -- 9 The Web of Fate -- 10 The Legal System -- 11 The Graft Ring -- 12 Shadows Before -- 13 Trial by Jury -- 14 Judge Fury -- 15 The Whispering Gallery -- 16 The Law's Delay -- 17 The Mills of the Law -- 18 The Supersalesman -- 19 Academic Autocracy -- 20 The Decision -- 21 Days of Grace -- 22 The City of Fear |
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23 The Last Enemy24 The Triumph -- Appendix -- Report to the Governor of Massachusetts in the Matter of Sacco and Vanzetti -- A Proclamation by Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts -- About the Author -- Copyright Page |
| Summary |
A wealthy dowager confronts the brutality of the class system and fights for justice in this dramatic account of the Sacco and Vanzetti case With the publication of The Jungle in 1906, Upton Sinclair became the literary conscience of America. Two decades later, he brought his singular artistry and steadfast commitment to the cause of social equality to bear on the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists accused of armed robbery and murder. Boston, a?documentary novel? published one year after Sacco and Vanzetti were executed, brilliantly combines fact and fiction to expose the toxic atmosphere of paranoia, prejudice, and greed in which the two men were tried. Recently widowed sixty-year-old Cornelia Thornwell abandons her Boston Brahmin family to take a factory job in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She witnesses the crushing poverty and heartless bigotry endured by immigrant laborers, and befriends the charismatic fishmonger Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a committed anarchist and atheist. When Vanzetti and his fellow countryman Nicola Sacco are arrested and charged with murder, Cornelia's belief in the fairness of the American judicial system is shattered. Joining the public outcry heard from Boston to Buenos Aires, she demands a fair trial--but it is too late. As Sacco knew all too well:?They got us, they will kill us.? This ebook has been authorized by the estate of Upton Sinclair |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927 -- Fiction
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Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927 -- Fiction
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Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927 fast |
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Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927 fast |
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Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921 -- Fiction
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction
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Massachusetts -- Boston
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Massachusetts -- Dedham
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1504026128 |
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9781504026123 |
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