Sacco and Vanzetti
The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind
By Bruce Watson
(Penguin (Non-Classics), Paperback, 9780143114284, 448pp.)
Publication Date: November 25, 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Criminals & Outlaws, Historical - U.S., United States - 20th Century/20s
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In this groundbreaking narrative of one of America?s most divisive trials and executions, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson mines deep archives and newly available sources to paint the most complete portrait available of the ?good shoemaker? and the ?poor fish peddler.? Opening with an explosion that rocks a quiet Washington, D.C., neighborhood and concluding with worldwide outrage as two men are executed despite widespread doubts about their guilt, Sacco & Vanzetti is the definitive history of an infamous case that still haunts the American imagination.
Bruce Watson is an award-winning journalist whose articles have been published in Smithsonian, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, Yankee Magazine, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003.
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