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This award-winning biography of a landmark trial and execution details the brutal murder of two Italian immigrants in Dedham, Massachusetts, and the resulting national debate that lasted for decades. Opening with an explosion that rocks a neighborhood and concluding with worldwide outrage as the 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.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Bruce Watson
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