Author: The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti,
Title: The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: a critical analysis for lawyers and laymen.
Description: Stanford, CA, Academic Reprints, 1954. 2nd ed. VG in G DJ. For 7 yrs the case of Sacco and Vanzetti dragged through courts of Massachusetts. Were they guilty of murdering a payroll clerk. in a Braintree, MA, street? They were convicted of anarchism, not of murder, by a court and a public prejudiced by press and government agencies which fostered a red scare. Frankfurter, then a professor at Harvard Law School questioned the justice of Massachusetts. He made a survey of the case and it was published a few weeks before the death of the two defendants. DJ edges chipped and rubbed.

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