Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial

by Moshik Temkin

Book Overview

A fresh assessment of the infamous murder case that exploded into an affair of international concern

What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal scandal as the perception grew that their conviction was a judicial travesty and their execution a political murder. This book is the first to reveal the full national and international...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300177852
• ISBN13: 9780300177855
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Sacco and Vanzetti were executed not in spite of global protest but because of it

"The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Temkin's book interview ran here as the cover feature on March 5, 2010.