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Topp's book is well-written and scholarly, yet accessible to the general reader. It is clear, it is comprehensive, and it is fairminded. It provides a full and objective history of Sacco and Vanzetti as we are likely to see for some years. <br>--Paul Avrich, Queens College/CUNY <br> This is a much-needed work that makes the Sacco-Vanzetti case accessible to students in a lucid and sophisticated presentation of the background, development, and outcome of the case. I do not think there is a better treatment designed to be used in class. <br>--Philip Cannistraro, Queens College/CUNY <br> The documents Professor Topp has selected are very appropriate for his purposes, perfectly illustrating the main themes articulated in his introduction. Most of this material (trial transcript and Galleani's writings especially) is very difficult to obtain even for scholars, much less students. Some of it has never before been translated into English. Topp's scholarship is one of the most compelling qua

Topp's book is well-written and scholarly, yet accessible to the general reader. It is clear, it is comprehensive, and it is fairminded. It provides a full and objective history of Sacco and Vanzetti as we are likely to see for some years. --Paul Avrich, Queens College/CUNY This is a much-needed work that makes the Sacco-Vanzetti case accessible to students in a lucid and sophisticated presentation of the background, development, and outcome of the case. I do not think there is a better treatment designed to be used in class. --Philip Cannistraro, Queens College/CUNY The documents Professor Topp has selected are very appropriate for his purposes, perfectly illustrating the main themes articulated in his introduction. Most of this material (trial transcript and Galleani's writings especially) is very difficult to obtain even for scholars, much less students. Some of it has never before been translated into English. Topp's scholarship is one of the most compelling qualities of the project. --Nuncio Pernicone, Drexel University Topp has done an excellent job of locating the Sacco and Vanzetti trial in its time and place. The various elements-Italian ancestry, anarchist beliefs, the tense political atmosphere, the unfair operation of the investigative and judicial machinery, the dismay and rising anger of those sensitive to the commission of injustice-that together explain why the trial assumed such importance then, and continues to stir debate, are all expertly handled. --Mark Gelfand, Boston College

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Michael M. Topp is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas, El Paso. A specialist in immigrant and working-class history, he is the author of Those Without a Country: The Political Culture of Italian American Syndicalists. He has written numerous essays on such subjects as the Italian American Left, masculinity and nationalism, immigrant historiography and its relevance to the study of the border, and racial and ethnic identity in the United States. He is currently working on a study of cultural identity and mental illness historically in the United States.

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