The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial

In rhe books most significant contribution, however, Temkin explains why the legal and political campaign to save Sacco and Yan/ctii was more than just a battle against a judicial minder rooted in the exploitation ol workers and fear ol foreigners and radicals, especially tor prominent political leaders, social activists, intellectuals, and hundreds of thousands ot ordinary Europeans (particularly in France where the case stirred memories ot ? he 1894 Dreyfus affair).