Sacco and Vanzetti.('Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind')(Brief article)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

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When the news came, on August 23, 1927, that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a shoemaker and a fish peddler, had been executed for shooting two men in a holdup, "life felt very grubby and mean," Katherine Anne Porter wrote, "as if we were all of us soiled and...

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