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Louis Adamic (1899–1951)

Author of Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America

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Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection (1965) — Contributor — 95 copies
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contributor — 40 copies
1935 Essay Annual — Contributor — 4 copies

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Sisällysluettelosta:
Part One: Mild beginnings; Impudent conduct; The Molly Maguires; The great riots of 1877
Part two: “Dynamite…that’s the stuff!”; Propaganda by the deed; The stage is set; The Haymarket bomb; The movement becomes a racket; Criminals join the class war
Part three: War begins an earnest; The Homestead strike; Coxey’s army; The Debs rebellion; Violence in the west; The reddening dawn of the 20th century, To hell with the constitution; The murder trial in Idaho; The wobblies
Part four: The McNamara affair; Class war 1905-1910; The AF of L dynamiters; The Los Angeles dynamite plot; The explosion – and after; Frame up!; The trial; Confessions; The AF of L loses its militancy
Part five: Massacres, frame ups and judicial murders; Slaughter east and west, The Mooney-Billings case, The great steel strike, The Centralia outrage, Sacco and Vanzetti
Part six: Rackets and sabotage; The beginning of racketeering; Racketeering as a phase of class conflict; Sabotage and striking on the job
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