The Day Wall Street Exploded
A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 November 2012
- ISBN 9780199759286
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 152x234x27 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
On its 90th anniversary, the first major account of the 1920 terrorist bombing on Wall Street is now available in paperback. Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war zone. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded, making the Wall Street explosion the worst terrorist attack to that point in U.S. history.
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Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war zone. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded, making the Wall Street explosion the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history until the Oklahoma City bombing.
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
Table of Contents:
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
