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The Trial Of The Haymarket Anarchists Is The Culmination Of Seven Years Of Research Into The 1886 Haymarket Bombing And Subsequent Trial. It Not Only Overturns The Prevailing Consensus On This Event, It Documents In Detail How The Basic Facts, As Far As They Can Be Determined, Have Been Distorted, Obscured, Or Suppressed For Seventy Years. Based On Both A Reexamination Of Well-known Sources And The Discovery Of Many New Ones, Timothy Messer-kruse Demonstrates That The Received Wisdom Regarding Chicago's Anarchist Leaders--that They Were Tried And Convicted For Their Ideas In A Trial In Which Little Evidence Of Their Guilt Was Presented--is Absolutely False--provided By Publisher. The Haymarket Trial Rewrites The History Of The Most Iconic Event Of American Labor History, The Haymarket Bombing And Trial Of 1886, Using Thousands Of Pages Of Previously Unexamined Materials. Contrary To Longstanding Historical Opinion, The Trial Was Not A Travesty Of Justice By The Standards Of Criminal Procedure Of That Era. Prosecutors Succeeded In Rallying A Daunting Amount Of Evidence Revealing The Inner-workings Of An Anarchist Conspiracy To Spark An Insurrection By Attacking Police And Connected

Author

Timothy Messer-Kruse, T. Messer-Kruse

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230339293

Subjects

History, Law, Humanities

Rating

3.38 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14