Description |
1 online resource (viii, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-385) and index. |
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. |
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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Terrorism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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Terrorism. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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History. |
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Terrorism -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
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Domestic terrorism -- United States.
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Domestic terrorism. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Gage, Beverly. Day Wall Street exploded. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780195148244 019514824X (DLC) 2008022074 (OCoLC)149137353 |
ISBN |
9780199722419 (electronic book) |
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0199722412 (electronic book) |
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9780195148244 (alkaline paper) |
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019514824X (alkaline paper) |
Standard No. |
9786611930875 |
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