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The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial. By Moshik T'emkin. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2009. xii, 316 pp. S35.00, isbn 978-0-300- 1 2484-2.)
On August 27, 1927, after seven years of legal wrangling and political battles. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were put to death in Massachusetts. In the period between their arrest and conviction tor robben- and murder and their execution, the plight ot these two working-class Italian immigrant anarchists moved out of relative obscurity to become the best-known case during the period immediately after World War I.
In the almost eight)· years since the two were electrocuted, the "agony of the good shoemaker and the poor fish peddler has been chronicled in scores of books, articles, pamphlets, movies. documentaries, and even ballads. Bv describing...