Death in the Haymarket : a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America /
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. Coming in the midst of the largest national strike Americans had ever seen, the bombing created mass hysteria and led to a sensational trial, which culminated in four controversial...
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New York :
Anchor Books,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st Anchor Books ed. |
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