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The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists - Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age (Hardcover)
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The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists - Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age (Hardcover)
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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
brought to light a daunting amount of evidence revealing the inner
workings of an anarchist conspiracy to spark insurrection by
attacking police, and connected their plans to the bomber through a
solid chain of evidence. Rather than being an example of "judicial
murder," the Haymarket trial was a tragic case of judicial suicide,
as the defense chose to use the trial as a grandstand for anarchism
rather than deploy a sound legal defense. Though bumblers in the
courtroom, the anarchist lawyers proved adept in the court of
public opinion and succeeded in influencing the way historians and
activists would remember this event for the next 125 years.
Exhaustively researched and forcefully argued, this is a vital new
contribution to our understanding of labor history and the world of
Gilded Age America.
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