Sacco and Vanzetti Paperback by Bruce Watson

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Books (2008-11-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 448 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143114284
• Item Weight: 425.25 grams
• Dimensions: 21.34 x 14.02 x 2.54 cm

In this groundbreaking narrative of one of America?s most divisive trials and executions, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson mines deep archives and newly available sources to paint the most complete portrait available of the ?good shoemaker? and the ?poor fish peddler.? Opening with an explosion that rocks a quiet Washington, D.C., neighborhood and concluding with worldwide outrage as two 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.

About the Author

Bruce Watson is an award-winning journalist whose articles have been published in Smithsonian, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, Yankee Magazine, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003.