The Day Wall Street Exploded
A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Format: Book
Description: vii, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as workers poured onto Wall Street for lunch, a horse-cart filled with dynamite exploded. Historian Beverly Gage recounts the now largely forgotten event that killed thirty-nine people and wounded hundreds more. What followed was a four-year world-wide hunt for the perpetrators. It also explores the history of home-grown terrorism and explores the lives of the victims, suspects and investigators included banking magnet J.P. Morgan; labor man "Big Bill" Haywood; anarchists Emma Goldman and Luigi Galleani; detective William J. Burns; and a young J. Edgar Hoover. -- From publisher description.
Contents:
Part I: September 16, 1920 -- The middle of things -- The end of the world -- Part II: The story of dynamite -- The first terrorist act in America -- American roughneck -- The war at home -- Part III: A national crime -- The great detectives -- Business as usual -- Usual suspects -- A perfect alibi -- Part IV: Faccia a faccia -- The anarchist fighters -- Illegal practices -- The martyr who wasn't -- Part V: The Russian connection -- The "great detective" returns -- Triple-cross -- The Wall Street curse -- The roar of the twenties -- Appendix: In memoriam.
Subjects:
Terrorism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Terrorism -- United States -- History.
Domestic terrorism -- United States.
Terrorism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Terrorism -- United States -- History.
Domestic terrorism -- United States.
ISBN:
0199759286
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Violence Gag | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-385) and index.