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Hopeless cases : the hunt for the red scare terrorist bombers / Charles H. McCormick.
- Title
- Hopeless cases : the hunt for the red scare terrorist bombers / Charles H. McCormick.
- Author
- McCormick, Charles H. (Charles Howard), 1932-
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E743.5 .M38 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 174 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Hopeless Cases describes the futile search for those responsible for a series of apparently related terrorist attacks and plots in the World War I-Red Scare era during the final surge of early twentieth-century anarchist violence in the United States. The most brazen attacks occurred in 1919 when bombs mailed to thirty-six public figures nationwide in May were followed in June by coordinated nearly simultaneous bombings aimed at public figures and institutions in eight cities. The end of the campaign was the Wall Street explosion (September 16, 1920) that killed forty and injured hundreds. Scores were arrested (thirty for the Wall Street explosion alone), but lawmen never caught the culprits." "The book profiles the suspects but focuses on the investigators, especially the Bureau of Investigation and its spies and informants. Based largely upon FBI files, it explores the Bureau's relationship with British Intelligence in New York City, and to the Sacco-Vanzetti case, as well as a privately funded search for the bombers. Throughout, the manhunt was handicapped by disputes with other law enforcement agencies and by intra-Bureau jealousies and rivalries, agent job insecurity and high turnover, inadequate training and resources, and morale problems, particularly in the New York and Boston field offices."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-168) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ch. 1 Prelude -- Ch. 2 The Bureau and the Italian anarchists, 1917-1919 -- Ch. 3 "The gigantic reign of terrorism," 1918-1919 -- Ch. 4 Trailing the "terrorists," May 1919-September 1920 -- Ch. 5 The Wall Street explosion -- Ch. 6 The investigation -- hot leads to cold case -- Ch. 7 Blind spot in Boston : the anarchist link -- Ch. 8 Flynn's debacle.
- ISBN
- 0761831320 (clothbound : alk. ppr.)
- 9780761831327 (clothbound : alk. ppr.)
- 0761831339 (paperback : alk. ppr.)
- 9780761831334 (paperback : alk. ppr.)
- OCLC
- 60358652
- SCSB-12404731
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library