Research Catalog

Title

The Sacco and Vanzetti case : a brief history with documents / Michael M. Topp.

Author

Topp, Michael Miller.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

xiv, 208 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

The Bedford series in history and culture

Uniform Title

Bedford series in history and culture (Palgrave (Firm))

Subject

• Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927 > Trials, litigation, etc
• Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927 > Trials, litigation, etc
• 1921
• Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921
• Trials (Murder) > Massachusetts
• Italian Americans > History
• Anarchists > United States > Correspondence

Genre/Form

• History
• Records and correspondence
• Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-194) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• pt. 1. Introduction : the Sacco and Vanzetti case -- pt. 2. The documents -- 1. How it feels to be a problem, May 1904 / Gino Speranza -- 2. The old world in the new, 1914 / Edward Ross -- 3. Anarchy will be! : 1907 / Luigi Galleani -- 4. La salute e in voi! : c. 1905 / Luigi Galleani -- 5. Against the war, against peace, for social revolution, March 18, 1916 / Luigi Galleani -- 6. Unbelievable stuff, July 8, 1916 / Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- 7. Nicola Sacco, letters, 1924-1927 -- To Fred Moore, August 18, 1924 / Nicola Sacco -- To dear friend Mrs. Henderson, February 9, 1927 / Nicola Sacco -- To my dear friends and comrades, August 4, 1927 / Nicola Sacco -- To my dear Ines, July 19, 1927 / Nicola Sacco -- To my dear son and companion, August 18, 1927 -- 8. Bartolomeo Vanzetti, letters, 1925, 1927 -- To dear comrade Blackwell, November 13, 1925 / Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- To my dear Dante, August 21, 1927 / Bartolomeo Vanzetti --^
• 9. The deportations delirium of nineteen-twenty, 1923 / Louis Post -- 10. Closing argument to the Dedham jury, July 13, 1921 / Frederick Katzmann -- 11. Background of the Plymouth trial, c. 1926 / Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- 12. Examination of Maynard Freeman Shaw, preliminary hearings, Plymouth, June 25, 1920 / William Kane -- 13. Cross-examination of Beltrando Brini, preliminary hearings, Plymouth, June 26, 1920 / Frederick Katzmann -- 14. Interview with Beltrando Brini, 1962 / Francis Russell -- 15. Examination of Mary Splaine, June 9, 1921 / Harold P. Williams -- 16. Reports, April 19, 1920; May 11, 1920 / Henry Hellyer -- 17. Affidavit, October 20, 1923 / William Proctor -- 18. Affadavit, October 31, 1923 / Frederick Katzmann -- 19. On reasons for prosecution, c. 1926 / Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- 20. Cross-examination of Nicola Sacco and Judge Webster Thayer's intervention, July 7, 1921 / Frederick Katzmann -- 21. Statement on anarchism, July 7, 1921 / Nicola Sacco --^
• 22. Affidavits, July 1926 / Fred J. Weyand and Lawrence Letherman -- 23. Testimony before the Lowell Committee, July 11, 1927 / George Crocker -- 24. Testimoney before the Lowell Committee, July 12, 1927 / James Richardson -- 25. Celestino Madeiros's statement, April 8, 1926 -- 26. Ruling on the Maderios appeal, October 23, 1926 / Webster Thayer -- 27. Vanzetti's articles reprinted in Il martello with editor's comments, September 15, 1921 / Carlo Tresca -- 28. Rebel girl, 1955 / Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- 29. Letter to Mrs. Evans, August 4, 1927 / Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- 30. Letter to Mrs. Jack, October 3, 1923 / Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- 31. Facing the chair, 1927 / John Dos Passos -- 32. Sacco-Vanzetti and the red peril : speech before the Lawrence, Massachusetts, Kiwanis Club, June 30, 1927 / Frank Goodwin -- 33. The never-ending wrong, June 1977 / Katherine Anne Porter -- 34. We submit, October 26, 1926 / F. Lauriston Bullard --^
• 35. Advisory [Lowell] committee decision, July 27, 1927 -- 36. Not Sacco and Vanzetti, 1927 / Countee Cullen -- 37. Justice denied in Massachusetts, 1927, 1928 / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- 38. Letter to little comrade [Li Pei Kan], July 23, 1927 / Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- 39. Letter to Governor Fuller, July 23, 1927 / Benito Mussolini -- 40. Justice underfoot, August 17, 1927 / Oswald Garrison Villard -- 42. Sacco and Vanzetti, August 1929 / Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman -- 42. Remember Sacco and Vanzetti, July 1977 / Vera B. Weisbord -- 43. Recommending a posthumous pardon for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, April 2, 1959 / Alexander J. Cella -- 44. Proclamation on the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, July 19, 1977 / Michael S. Dukakis -- App. A chronology of events related to the Sacco and Vanzetti case (1888-1977) -- App. Cultural and artistic productions related to the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

ISBN

140396808X (hardback)

LCCN

^^2005298239

OCLC

• 60334538
• SCSB-9919262

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library