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