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Boston : a novel

Title: Boston : a novel / by Upton Sinclair.
Author: Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
Publication: New York : Albert & Charles Boni, Mcmxxviii [1928]

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	v. 2	Text	Use in library	PS3537.I85 B678 1928 v. 2	Off-site

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Description

2 volumes (x, 756 pages); 20 cm

Summary

A novel on the 1920s trial and execution of suspected anarchists Sacco and Vansetti. Of all the books that have appeared over the years concerning the case, the most complete and convincing was first published in 1928, only a year after the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. That book is Upton Sinclair's Boston. In his "documentary novel" the celebrated author of The Jungle combined a firm grasp of the facts of the case with an engrossing fictional framework to produce a remarkably accurate and comprehensive report of the events that spanned the years 1919 to 1927 which ultimately focused the attention of the whole world on a drama played out in the drawing rooms, courts, and streets of the city of Boston. In Boston, Sinclair described the xenophobia and paranoia that led the upper crust of Boston society to see these two illiterate immigrants as a threat to their way of life, and led to their conviction on the flimsiest of evidence. Sinclair used his considerable skills to arouse the reader to a state of outrage as the protagonists' inevitable fate approaches.

Subject

Genre/Form

novels.
Novels
Fiction
Legal stories.
Fiction.
Novels.
Romans.

Note

Author's note (vol. 2, pp. 755-756) enumerates statements from the publication of "the true story of the Bridgewater crime" in the Outlook, "an old established weekly magazine of New York ..."
Paged continuously.

LCCN

29026043

OCLC

ocm09260193
9260193
SCSB-8949896

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library