| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; The Black Flag; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Prelude; Acknowledgments; Part one A winter's tale; Chapter 1 Christmas Eve 1919; Chapter 2 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti; Chapter 3 A crime punishable by death; Chapter 4 Cross-examination; Chapter 5 Eels and the electric chair; Chapter 6 In Death Row; Interlude A long shadow; Part two Half a century later; Chapter 7 In State House; Chapter 8 Little secrets in little boxes; Chapter 9 'There seemed to be no doubt at all'; Chapter 10 'Have you agreed upon your verdict?' |
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Chapter 11 Culture or anarchyChapter 12 'The storming of heaven'; Background sources; 1 Proclamation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Tuesday August 23, 1977; 2 Other sources; 1 Documentation; 2 Books and papers on the case; 3 Books on the social background; 4 Other references cited; 5 Literature on anarchy; 6 Some drama, novels and poems on the case; Index of names |
| Summary |
First published in 1981, this book reassesses the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in Boston in 1920. The pair were accused of a payroll robbery and the murder of two guards for which they were arrested and, after a long trial based on inadequate and prejudiced evidence, executed in 1927. In 1977, on the fiftieth anniversary of their deaths, the Commonwealth of Massachusettes issued a proclamation which acknowledged a miscarriage of justice. The Black Flag provides an account of the controversial trial and a re-evaluation of the celebrated case of t |
| Analysis |
Sacco-Vanzetti case |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921.
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Trials (Murder) -- Massachusetts -- Dedham
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Trials (Murder)
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Massachusetts -- Dedham
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135040642 |
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1135040648 |
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