The Day Wall Street Exploded
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-975928-6 (ISBN)
In The Day Wall Street Exploded, Beverly Gage tells the story of that once infamous but now largely forgotten event. Based on thousands of pages of Bureau of Investigation reports, this historical detective saga traces the four-year hunt for the perpetrators, a worldwide effort that spread as far as Italy and the new Soviet nation. It also gives readers the decades-long but little-known history of homegrown terrorism that helped to shape American society a century ago. The book delves into the lives of victims, suspects, and investigators: world banking power J.P. Morgan, Jr.; labor radical "Big Bill" Haywood; anarchist firebrands Emma Goldman and Luigi Galleani; "America's Sherlock Holmes," William J. Burns; even a young J. Edgar Hoover. It grapples as well with some of the most controversial events of its day, including the rise of the Bureau of Investigation, the federal campaign against immigrant "terrorists," the grassroots effort to define and protect civil liberties, and the establishment of anti-communism as the sine qua non of American politics.
Many Americans saw the destruction of the World Trade Center as the first major terrorist attack on American soil, an act of evil without precedent. The Day Wall Street Exploded reminds us that terror, too, has a history.
Praise for the hardcover:
"Outstanding."
--New York Times Book Review
"Ms. Gage is a storyteller...she leaves it to her readers to draw their own connections as they digest her engaging narrative."
--The New York Times
"Brisk, suspenseful and richly documented"
--The Chicago Tribune
"An uncommonly intelligent, witty and vibrant account. She has performed a real service in presenting such a complicated case in such a fair and balanced way."
--San Francisco Chronicle
Beverly Gage teaches U.S. history at Yale University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Slate.com, The Nation, and The Washington Post. She has been featured as a guest commentator on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and in Time magazine.
Introduction ; Part I: September 16, 1920 ; Ch. 1 The Middle of Things ; Ch. 2 The End of the World ; Part II: The Story of Dynamite ; Ch. 3 The First Terrorist Act in America ; Ch. 4 American Roughneck ; Ch. 5 The War At Home ; Part III: A National Crime ; Ch. 6 The Great Detectives ; Ch. 7 Business As Usual ; Ch. 8 Usual Suspects ; Ch. 9 A Perfect Alibi ; Part IV ; Ch. 10 The Anarchist Fighters ; Ch. 11 Illegal Practices ; Ch. 12 The Martyr Who Wasn't ; Part V: On to Russia ; Ch. 13 The "Great Detective" Returns ; Ch. 14 Triple-Cross ; Ch. 15 Red Scare ; Ch. 16 The Roar of the Twenties ; Notes ; Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.11.2012 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 234 x 152 mm |
| Gewicht | 612 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-975928-6 / 0199759286 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-975928-6 / 9780199759286 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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