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The Day Wall Street Exploded
Beverly Gage
Oxford University Press, USA
September 2010
On Sale: September 13, 2010
400 pages
ISBN: 0199759286
EAN: 9780199759286
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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 in U.S. history until the Oklahoma City
bombing. 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 historical detective
saga traces the four-year hunt for the perpetrators, a
worldwide effort that spread as far as Italy and the new
Soviet nation. It also gives readers the decades-long but
little-known history of homegrown terrorism that helped to
shape American society a century ago. The book delves into
the lives of victims, suspects, and investigators: world
banking power J.P. Morgan, Jr.; labor radical "Big Bill"
Haywood; anarchist firebrands Emma Goldman and Luigi
Galleani; "America's Sherlock Holmes," William J. Burns;
even a young J. Edgar Hoover. It grapples as well with some
of the most controversial events of its day, including the
rise of the Bureau of Investigation, the federal campaign
against immigrant "terrorists," the grassroots effort to
define and protect civil liberties, and the establishment of
anti-communism as the sine qua non of American politics.
Many Americans saw the destruction of the World Trade
Center as the first major terrorist attack on American soil,
an act of evil without precedent. The Day Wall Street
Exploded reminds us that terror, too, has a history.
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