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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454551103321

Autore

Gage Beverly

Titolo

The day Wall Street exploded [[electronic resource] ] : a story of America in its first age of terror / / Beverly Gage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-281-93087-3

9786611930875

0-19-972241-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 p.)

Disciplina

974.71042

Soggetti

Terrorism - New York (State) - New York - History

Terrorism - United States - History

Domestic terrorism - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-385) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; PART I: SEPTEMBER 16, 1920; PART II: THE STORY OF DYNAMITE; PART III: A NATIONAL CRIME; PART IV: FACCIA A FACCIA; PART V: THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION; Appendix: In Memoriam; Acknowledgments; Note on Sources; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war zone. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded, making the Wall Street explosion the worst terrorist attack to that point in U.S. history. In The Day Wall Street Exploded, Beverly Gage tells the story of that once infamous but now largely forgotten event. Based on thousands of pages of Bureau of Investigation reports, this historic