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Sacco and Vanzetti : Rebel Lives (Rebel Lives)
Sacco and Vanzetti Rebel Lives - Rebel Lives Author:Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti The trial judge called them "anarchistic bastards." Political activists, Italian-born Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were framed and executed for murder in a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria in Boston in the 1920s. By illustrating how anarchists and immigrants were the "terrorists" of yesteryear, this book is a grim reminder of the conseque... more »nces of using fear as a political weapon. Eventually pardoned in 1977 by Governor Dukakis, Sacco and Vanzettis case sparked an unprecedented international defense campaignincluding among its supporters writers, artists, and musiciansand remains one of the most famous political trials in history."[Vanzetti] loved his adopted country, but his hatred of war was greater than his devotion to an abstraction."William Kunstler (U.S. civil rights lawyer)« less