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"All right we are two nations."1 With those words John Dos Passos summarized the reaction of "progressives" everywhere when two Italian immigrant anarchists, having been convicted of robbery and murder in Massachusetts six years earlier, were finally put to death on August 23, 1927. Although Dos Passos portrayed the long campaign to save Sacco and Vanzetti as a battle between two nations within the bosom of a single society, he actually misread the true character of the struggle. In hindsight, it is now clear that the Sacco and Vanzetti case was but one skirmish in a continuing war concerning the...
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