The Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti

"The Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti" is a powerful and immediate account of one of the most controversial legal cases in American history. Written by Eugene Lyons and appearing in the wake of their execution in 1927, this work captures the intense social and political atmosphere of the 1920s. The narrative follows the lives of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian-born anarchists whose trial for robbery and murder in South Braintree, Massachusetts, became a global cause cé...