Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe
- Hardcover
- Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1889
Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. 698pp. Octavo [25cm]. Blue cloth over boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine and front board alongside decorative blind stamping. Floral endpapers. Rubbing to extremities. Light soiling to boards. Ex-library with markings. Abrasion to rear pastedown. Front hinge cracked. Late 19th century American propoganda.
A thourough and heavily illustrated overview of the Haymarket affair and subsequent investigations and trial, as told by a Chicago Police Captain. Additionally, Michael J. Schaak was a colleague of the officer who led the police into the gathered crowd--striking for an eight-hour workday--at Haymarket Square, Inspector John Bonfield. Both were later dismissed following a corruption investigation which uncovered perjured testimony by police witnesses and jury rigging by the prosecution.
A thourough and heavily illustrated overview of the Haymarket affair and subsequent investigations and trial, as told by a Chicago Police Captain. Additionally, Michael J. Schaak was a colleague of the officer who led the police into the gathered crowd--striking for an eight-hour workday--at Haymarket Square, Inspector John Bonfield. Both were later dismissed following a corruption investigation which uncovered perjured testimony by police witnesses and jury rigging by the prosecution.