Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti & the End of the American Dream

Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti & the End of the American Dream

Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti & the End of the American Dream

Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti & the End of the American Dream

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Overview

From John Florio and Emmy Award-winning writer Ouisie Shapiro comes a monumental YA nonfiction book about the heartbreaking case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants who were wrongfully executed for murder.

In the early 1920s, a Red Scare gripped America. Many of those targeted were Italians, Eastern Europeans, and other immigrants.

When an armed robbery resulting in the death of two people broke headlines in Massachusetts, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti—both Italian immigrants—were quick to be accused.

A heated trial ensued, but through it all, the two men maintained their innocence. The controversial case quickly rippled past borders as it became increasingly clear that Sacco and Vanzetti were fated for a death sentence. Protests sprang up around the world to fight for their lives.

Learn the tragic history we dare not repeat in Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the End of the American Dream, an action-packed, fast-paced nonfiction book filled with issues that still resonate today.

Praise for Doomed

“A riveting true crime story—but who are the criminals? As relevant today as it was a century ago.” - Steve Sheinkin, author of Bomb and Fallout


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250621931
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Publication date: 01/24/2023
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 189,605
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.35(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile: 1040L (what's this?)
Age Range: 12 - 18 Years

About the Author

John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro are the authors of War in the Ring, One Nation Under Baseball, and One Punch from the Promised Land. They’ve written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, and ESPN. Florio, also a novelist, is on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA creative writing program at the University of Southern Maine. Shapiro is a six-time Emmy-award winning writer of television documentaries. They are married and live in Brooklyn, NY.

Table of Contents

A Note to the Reader xi

April 15, 1920 1

Part 1 America, 1908-1920

Nicola Sacco: Life Is Beautiful 9

Bartolomeo Vanzetti: Stranger in a New Land 14

Words of Beltrando Brini 24

The Great War 25

Letter from Bartolomeo to His Family 33

Panic 34

Crackdown 40

Crazier and Crazier 43

Excerpt from The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty 46

Puffer's Place 47

Arrested 51

Charged 56

Letter from Bartolomeo to His Father 60

Words of Nicola 61

Part 2 The Trial, 1921

"Your Goose Is Cooked" 65

Twelve White Men 69

Letter from Bartolomeo to His Father 72

"That Man There" 73

Letter from Bartolomeo to His Father 86

Alibis 87

Bartolomeo Takes the Stand 89

Nicola in the Witness Box 93

A Dilemma 96

Waiting 96

Excerpt from the Boston Globe 98

Closing Remarks 99

The Verdict 102

Letter from Bartolomeo to Elizabeth Glendower Evans 108

Part 3 Posttrial, 1921-1927

"Save Sacco and Vanzetti" 111

Protests, Bombs, Grenades 114

Letter from Nicola to Friends 117

Letter from Bartolomeo to Luigia 118

"I Kept Them Alive" 119

Behind Bars 121

"I Hear By Confess" 123

Marking Time 126

Letter from Nicola to Ines 131

Letter from Nicola to Dante 132

August 23, 1927 133

"Long Live Anarchy" 136

The World Protests 140

The March 141

Letter from Nicola and Bartolomeo to the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee 145

Epilogue 146

Quote from Bartolomeo 149

Acknowledgments 151

Source Notes 153

Bibliography 169

Image Credits 183

Index 185

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