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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Strang, Dean A.     Subjects     Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.     Trials (Riots) -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History -- 20th century.     Judicial corruption -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History -- 20th century.     Anarchists -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History -- 20th century.     Italian Americans -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History -- 20th century.     Bay View (Milwaukee, Wis.) -- History -- 20th century.     Milwaukee (Wis.) -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Strang, Dean A.       by title:      Worse than the devil...         MARC Display

Worse than the devil : anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and justice in a time of terror / Dean A. Strang. by Strang, Dean A. Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2013. Subjects Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.   Trials (Riots) -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History -- 20th century.   Judicial corruption -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History -- 20th century.   Anarchists -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History -- 20th century.   Italian Americans -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History -- 20th century.   Bay View (Milwaukee, Wis.) -- History -- 20th century.   Milwaukee (Wis.) -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780299293949 (pbk. : alk. paper) : 0299293947 (pbk. : alk. paper) Description:  xviii, 268 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. Contents:  What the scrubwoman found -- Eleven -- American anarchists -- Doffed hats and honored flags; buttoned coats, pigs, and rags -- Chaos -- Of counsel -- "The public mind has become violently inflamed against all Italians" -- Darrow -- May it please the court -- Infernal machine. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In 1917 a bomb exploded in a Milwaukee police station, killing nine officers and a civilian. Those responsible never were apprehended, but police, press, and public all assumed that the perpetrators were Italian. Days later, eleven alleged Italian anarchists went to trial on unrelated charges involving a fracas that had occurred two months before. Against the backdrop of World War I, and amidst a prevailing hatred and fear of radical immigrants, the Italians had an unfair trial. The specter of the larger, uncharged crime of the bombing haunted the proceedings and assured convictions of all eleven. Although Clarence Darrow led an appeal that gained freedom for most of the convicted, the celebrated lawyer's methods themselves were deeply suspect. The entire case left a dark, if hidden, stain on American justice. Largely overlooked for almost a century, the compelling story of this case emerges vividly in this meticulously researched book by Dean A. Strang. In its focus on a moment when patriotism, nativism, and terror swept the nation, Worse than the Devil exposes broad concerns that persist even today as the United States continues to struggle with administering criminal justice to newcomers and outsiders."--P. [4] of cover.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Adult New Books 345.77502 St missing from shelf Add Copy to MyList

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