The day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in its first age of terror / Beverly Gage.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009وصف:viii, 400 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780195148244 (hbk)
- 019514824X (hbk)
- HV6432.44.N7 G34 2009
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | HV6432.44.N7 G34 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000087743 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | HV6432.44.N7 G34 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000087694 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-385) and index.
The middle of things -- The end of the world -- The first terrorist act in America -- American roughneck -- The war at home -- The great detectives -- Business as usual -- Usual suspects -- A perfect alibi -- The anarchist fighters -- Illegal practices -- The martyr who wasn't -- The "great detective" returns -- Triple-cross -- The Wall Street curse -- The roar of the twenties.
Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for lunch, a horse-cart packed with dynamite exploded. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded in the worst terrorist attack to that point in U.S. history. Historian Beverly Gage recounts that now largely forgotten event: this historical detective saga traces the four-year hunt for the perpetrators, which spread as far as Italy and the new Soviet nation...