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



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Autore: Gage Beverly Visualizza persona
Titolo: The day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in its first age of terror / / Beverly Gage Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 p.)
Disciplina: 974.71042
Soggetto topico: Terrorism - New York (State) - New York - History
Terrorism - United States - History
Domestic terrorism - United States
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
Titolo autorizzato: The day Wall Street exploded  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-974372-X
1-281-93087-3
9786611930875
0-19-972241-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810802403321
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