Worse than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
by Dean A. Strang
University of Wisconsin Press, 2016 Paper: 978-0-299-30914-5
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In 1917 a bomb exploded in a Milwaukee police station, killing nine officers and a civilian. Days later, a trial began for eleven Italian immigrants who had already been in jail for months for an unrelated riot. The specter of the bombing, for which no one had been arrested, haunted the proceedings. Against the backdrop of World War I and amid a prevailing hatred and fear of radical immigrants and anarchists, the Italians had an unfair trial. Famed attorney Clarence Darrow led an appeal that gained freedom for most of the convicted, but his own methods were deeply suspect. The entire case left a dark, though largely forgotten, stain on American justice.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dean A. Strang is a criminal defense lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin, and an adjunct professor at the law schools of the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Preface to the 2016 Edition
1 What the Scrubwoman Found
2 Eleven
3 American Anarchists
4 Doffed Hats and Honored Flags: Buttoned Coats, Pigs, and Rags
5 Chaos
6 Of Counsel
7 "The Public Mind Has Become Violently Inflamed against All Italians"
Worse than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
by Dean A. Strang
University of Wisconsin Press, 2016 Paper: 978-0-299-30914-5
In 1917 a bomb exploded in a Milwaukee police station, killing nine officers and a civilian. Days later, a trial began for eleven Italian immigrants who had already been in jail for months for an unrelated riot. The specter of the bombing, for which no one had been arrested, haunted the proceedings. Against the backdrop of World War I and amid a prevailing hatred and fear of radical immigrants and anarchists, the Italians had an unfair trial. Famed attorney Clarence Darrow led an appeal that gained freedom for most of the convicted, but his own methods were deeply suspect. The entire case left a dark, though largely forgotten, stain on American justice.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dean A. Strang is a criminal defense lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin, and an adjunct professor at the law schools of the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Preface to the 2016 Edition
1 What the Scrubwoman Found
2 Eleven
3 American Anarchists
4 Doffed Hats and Honored Flags: Buttoned Coats, Pigs, and Rags
5 Chaos
6 Of Counsel
7 "The Public Mind Has Become Violently Inflamed against All Italians"