The lives of Sacco & Vanzetti [1st ed] 9781561636051, 9781561636228, 8008861223, 1561636053, 9781561637881, 1561637882

Table of contents :
Front Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
Map of Eastern Massachusetts Showing Locations Related to the Case of Sacco & Vanzetti......Page 7
Scene of the Murder and Robbery - South Braintree, Mass. April 15, 1920......Page 8
A Global Cause 1926 - 1927......Page 9
Part I - The Crime......Page 10
Part II - The Accused......Page 20
Part III - The Case for the Commonwealth......Page 32
Part IV - The Case for the Defense......Page 44
Part V - The Legal Jungle......Page 56
Part VI - A Global Cause......Page 70
Back Cover......Page 82

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SACCO & VANZETTI

Novels in the true sense about exploring our lives, our feelings, our experiences. In comic art. In graphic novels. At times uplifting, at times controversial - always insightful and enriching. Here are the most intelligent comics the world has to offer.

What they have said of his previous volume, ‘The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans’:

“Outstanding! A-” -The Onion

Rick Geary tackles the most controversial case of the 20th century. Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti were accused of robbery and murder but so many supposedly damning pieces of evidence were questionable their guilty verdict elicited massive protests around the world. Geary presents us with all the twists and turns, appeals and dubious evidence after presenting us the human face of the two men, demonized by many, turned to martyrs by many others in his usual unflappable way.

ISBN: 978-1-56163-605-1

51599

9 781561 636051

NBM Publishing 40 Exchange Pl., Ste. 1308 New York, NY 10005

NBM/ComicsLit

“Speaking of great art, you can’t go wrong with Geary his work displays a humor, style and class that make it instantly recognizable.” -Pop Candy, USA Today

Rick GEARY

“Geary’s archly antiquated drawing style is ideally suited for bringing bygone eras to vivid, convincing life. Geary’s exacting, historically accurate approach makes this-as well as his other nonfiction works-a natural for true-crime fans as well as comics lovers.” -Booklist

A TREASURY OF XXth CENTURY MURDER

True Crime/graphic novel

$15.99

Rick Geary was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where his first cartoons were published in the University Daily Kansan. He worked as staff artist for two weekly papers in Wichita before moving to San Diego in 1975. He began work in comics in 1977 and was for thirteen years a contributor to the Funny Pages of National Lampoon. His comic stories have also been published in Heavy Metal, Dark Horse Comics and the DC Comics/Paradox Press Big Books. His early comic work has been collected in Housebound with Rick Geary from Fantagraphics Books. During a four-year stay in New York, his illustrations appeared regularly in The New York Times Book Review. His illustration work has also been seen in MAD, Spy, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, and American Libraries. He has written and illustrated three children’s books based on The Mask for Dark Horse and two Spider-Man children’s books for Marvel. His children’s comic Society of Horrors ran in Disney Adventures magazine from 1999 to 2006. He is currently the artist for the new series of Gumby comics, written by Bob Burden. His graphic novels include three adaptations for CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED. In 2007, he wrote and illustrated J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 2007, after more than thirty years in San Diego, he and his wife Deborah moved to the town of Carrizozo, New Mexico.

A TREASURY OF XXth CENTURY MURDER

The Lives of

Sacco & Vanzetti

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A Special Treasury Edition was made available only directly from us strictly limited to 25 numbered copies, bound in real cloth and including an original plate signed and numbered by Rick Geary, with a silver-stamped jacket. For more information: 800 886 1223, www.nbmpub.com.

ISBN: 978-1-56163-605-1 Junior Library Guild Edition: ISBN: 978-1-56163-622-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2011927818 © 2011 Rick Geary Printed in China 1st printing June 2011

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THE LIVES OF SACCO & VANZETTI BIBLIOGRAPHY Blumenfield, Harold, Sacco and Vanzetti, Murderers or Murdered? (New York, Scholastic Book Services, 1972) Frankfurter, Marion Denham and Gardner Jackson, eds., The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti. (Secaucus NJ, Citadel Press, 1956) Joughlin, Louis and Edmund M. Morgan, The Legacy of Sacco & Vanzetti. (Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1976) Mappen, Marc, Murder and Spies, Lovers and Lies: Settling the Great Controversies of American History. (New York, Avon Books, 1996) Russell, Francis, Tragedy in Dedham, The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case. (New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971) Temkin, Moshik, The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial. (New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2009) Watson, Bruce, Sacco & Vanzetti. (New York, Penguin Books, 2007)

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cover layouthardcover

5/3/11

3:26 PM

Page 1

SACCO & VANZETTI

Novels in the true sense about exploring our lives, our feelings, our experiences. In comic art. In graphic novels. At times uplifting, at times controversial - always insightful and enriching. Here are the most intelligent comics the world has to offer.

What they have said of his previous volume, ‘The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans’:

“Outstanding! A-” -The Onion

Rick Geary tackles the most controversial case of the 20th century. Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti were accused of robbery and murder but so many supposedly damning pieces of evidence were questionable their guilty verdict elicited massive protests around the world. Geary presents us with all the twists and turns, appeals and dubious evidence after presenting us the human face of the two men, demonized by many, turned to martyrs by many others in his usual unflappable way.

ISBN: 978-1-56163-605-1

51599

9 781561 636051

NBM Publishing 40 Exchange Pl., Ste. 1308 New York, NY 10005

NBM/ComicsLit

“Speaking of great art, you can’t go wrong with Geary his work displays a humor, style and class that make it instantly recognizable.” -Pop Candy, USA Today

Rick GEARY

“Geary’s archly antiquated drawing style is ideally suited for bringing bygone eras to vivid, convincing life. Geary’s exacting, historically accurate approach makes this-as well as his other nonfiction works-a natural for true-crime fans as well as comics lovers.” -Booklist

A TREASURY OF XXth CENTURY MURDER

True Crime/graphic novel

$15.99

Rick Geary was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where his first cartoons were published in the University Daily Kansan. He worked as staff artist for two weekly papers in Wichita before moving to San Diego in 1975. He began work in comics in 1977 and was for thirteen years a contributor to the Funny Pages of National Lampoon. His comic stories have also been published in Heavy Metal, Dark Horse Comics and the DC Comics/Paradox Press Big Books. His early comic work has been collected in Housebound with Rick Geary from Fantagraphics Books. During a four-year stay in New York, his illustrations appeared regularly in The New York Times Book Review. His illustration work has also been seen in MAD, Spy, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, and American Libraries. He has written and illustrated three children’s books based on The Mask for Dark Horse and two Spider-Man children’s books for Marvel. His children’s comic Society of Horrors ran in Disney Adventures magazine from 1999 to 2006. He is currently the artist for the new series of Gumby comics, written by Bob Burden. His graphic novels include three adaptations for CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED. In 2007, he wrote and illustrated J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 2007, after more than thirty years in San Diego, he and his wife Deborah moved to the town of Carrizozo, New Mexico.