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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 disgraced." The frenzy around the case drew on the fading ideals of the progressive era and the cynicism of the Jazz Age, and Watson provides an unusually evenhanded look at a ...