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The Committee of Vigilance : The Law and Order Committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Its War Against the Left, 1916 - 1919
Steven C. Levi
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Paperback. Discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of the last of the old western vigilance committees - and the rise of the first modern American committee devoted to ferreting out 'Un- American activities' among the laboring poor, union leaders, progressive politicians and social activists. Num Pages: 264 pages, index, bibliography, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJ; JFF; JHBL; JPFB; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Steven Levi discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of the last of the old western vigilance committees - and the rise of the first modern American committee devoted to ferreting out 'Un- American activities' among the laboring poor, union leaders, progressive politicians and social activists. The Preparedness Day bombing of 1916 was the catalyst (along with the "Los Angeles Times" bombing several years earlier) for full scale civic strife and class violence in San Francisco. The committee railroaded two men to the death house - Tom Mooney and Warren Billings - and their cause became one of the most ... Read more
Steven Levi discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of the last of the old western vigilance committees - and the rise of the first modern American committee devoted to ferreting out 'Un- American activities' among the laboring poor, union leaders, progressive politicians and social activists. The Preparedness Day bombing of 1916 was the catalyst (along with the "Los Angeles Times" bombing several years earlier) for full scale civic strife and class violence in San Francisco. The committee railroaded two men to the death house - Tom Mooney and Warren Billings - and their cause became one of the most ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Academica Press,llc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Bethesda, United States
ISBN
9781933146799
SKU
V9781933146799
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