The day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in its first age of terror / Beverly Gage.
2009
HV6432.44.N7 G34 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
The day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in its first age of terror / Beverly Gage.
Author
Gage, Beverly.
ISBN
9780195148244 (alk. paper)
019514824X (alk. paper)
019514824X (alk. paper)
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
viii, 400 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HV6432.44.N7 G34 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
974.7/1
Summary
Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for lunch, a horse-cart packed with dynamite exploded. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded in the worst terrorist attack to that point in U.S. history. Historian Beverly Gage recounts that now largely forgotten event: this historical detective saga traces the four-year hunt for the perpetrators, which spread as far as Italy and the new Soviet nation. It also presents the little-known history of homegrown terrorism, and delves into the lives of victims, suspects, and investigators: banking power J.P. Morgan, Jr.; labor radical "Big Bill" Haywood; anarchist firebrands Emma Goldman and Luigi Galleani; "America's Sherlock Holmes," William J. Burns; even a young J. Edgar Hoover. It grapples with some of the controversies of its day, including the rise of the Bureau of Investigation, the federal campaign against immigrant "terrorists," the grassroots effort to define and protect civil liberties, and the establishment of anti-communism at the heart of American politics.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-385) and index.
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Table of Contents
The middle of things
The end of the world
The first terrorist act in America
American roughneck
The war at home
The great detectives
Business as usual
Usual suspects
A perfect alibi
The anarchist fighters
Illegal practices
The martyr who wasn't
The "great detective" returns
Triple-cross
The Wall Street curse
The roar of the twenties.
The end of the world
The first terrorist act in America
American roughneck
The war at home
The great detectives
Business as usual
Usual suspects
A perfect alibi
The anarchist fighters
Illegal practices
The martyr who wasn't
The "great detective" returns
Triple-cross
The Wall Street curse
The roar of the twenties.