In search of Sacco & Vanzetti : double lives, troubled times, & the Massachusetts murder case that shook the world
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-372) and index.

Tried and convicted for robbery and murder in broad daylight on the streets of South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian-born laborers went to the electric chair in 1927, professing their innocence. After years of researching the case, the author discovered little-known facts about Sacco and Vanzetti and their supporters, and developed a theory about how a doomed insider may have been coerced into helping professional criminals plan the heist. The book also paints a portrait of a bygone era: Providence gangsters and Boston Brahmins; nighttime raids and midnight bombings; immigration, unionism, draft dodging, and violent anarchism in the turbulent early years of the twentieth century."--,From book jacket.