The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age

by Timothy Messer-Kruse

Book Overview

In this controversial and groundbreaking new history, Timothy Messer-Kruse rewrites the standard narrative of the most iconic event in American labor history: the Haymarket Bombing and Trial of 1886. Using thousands of pages of previously unexamined materials, Messer-Kruse demonstrates that, contrary to longstanding historical opinion, the trial was not the "travesty of justice" it has commonly been depicted as. Prosecutors in the trial successfully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230120776
• ISBN13: 9780230120778
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"